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very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

1. : sand launce

2. : a slender soft-finned fish (Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus or G. grayi) of the Indo-Pacific having small spiny scales, a single barbel in the produced snout, and the eyes beneath the skin

1. See sand lance.

2. New Zealand. sandfish (def. 2).

[1275-1325; ME sandel; see SAND, EEL]

sand eel or sand lance noun

The launce

Main Entry: ↑sand

sand eel,

= sand launce. (Cf. ↑sand launce)

n. a small elongated marine fish that lives in shallow waters of the northern hemisphere, often found burrowing in the sand. ● Family Ammodytidae: several genera and species, including the European Ammodytes tobianus