Search Result for "sand_lance":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches;
[syn: sand lance, sand launce, sand eel, launce]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lance fish \Lance" fish`\n. (Zool.)
   A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially
   Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also
   sand lance.
   [1913 Webster] Lancegay


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sand lance
    n 1: very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow
         into sandy beaches [syn: sand lance, sand launce, sand
         eel, launce]