sand lance

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very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
Any of several small marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, having a slender body with a forked tail fin and often burrowing in the sand of tidelands. Also called launce, sand eel
sand lances
ammodytidae
sand lance

    Hyphenation

    sand Lance

    Turkish pronunciation

    sänd läns

    Pronunciation

    /ˈsand ˈlans/ /ˈsænd ˈlæns/

    Etymology

    [ 'sand ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German sant sand, Latin sabulum, Greek psammos.
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