sand lance (redirected from Ammodytid)

sand lance

n.

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.

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sand lance, launce

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the sand eel

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Noun

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sand lance - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches launce, sand eel, sand launce acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays Ammodytes, genus Ammodytes - type genus of the Ammodytidae