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very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

see sand launce

any slender marine fish of the family Ammodytidae that burrows into the sand.

Also, sand launce.

[1770-80]

sand eel or sand lance noun

The launce

Main Entry: ↑sand

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sand lance noun

The sand eel or launce

Main Entry: ↑sand

sand launce or sand lance,

any one of various small, elongate, marine fishes which burrow into the sand along beaches when the tide goes out; sand eel.

╂[< sand + launce, variant of lance (because of its shape)]

n. another term for sand eel