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noun
Any of various species of slim fish, resembling eels, especially of the family Ammodytidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sand lance, sand launce, launce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
History
From Middle English sandeel, sandell, sandel, equivalent to sand + eel. Cognate with German Sandaal (“sand eel”), Danish sandål (“sand eel”).
