Phrase guide

sand lance

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of the slender fish of the family Ammodytidae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sand launce, sand eel, launce

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: trencavits — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Chinese Mandarin: 玉筋魚 /玉筋鱼 (yùjīnyú) — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Finnish: tuulenkala — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • French: anguille de sable — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • French: lançon — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • French: équille — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Galician: pión — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Galician: lubión — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Irish: corr ghainimh — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Norman: lanchon — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Norman: lànchaon — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Norman: launchoun — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Portuguese: galeota — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Portuguese: sandilho — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Swedish: tobisfisk — fish of the family Ammodytidae
  • Turkish: kum balığı — fish of the family Ammodytidae