Definition of Sand eel

1. Noun. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.

Exact synonyms: Launce, Sand Lance, Sand Launce
Generic synonyms: Acanthopterygian, Spiny-finned Fish
Group relationships: Ammodytes, Genus Ammodytes

Definition of Sand eel

1. Noun. Any of various species of slim fish, resembling eels, especially of the genus ''Ammodytes''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Eel

sand cast
sand cat
sand cats
sand cherry
sand crab
sand crack
sand cricket
sand dab
sand devil's claw
sand dollar
sand dollars
sand down
sand dropseed
sand dune
sand dunes
sand eel (current term)
sand flea
sand fleas
sand fly
sand grouse
sand hog
sand hopper
sand iron
sand lance
sand launce
sand leek
sand lizard
sand martin
sand martins
sand mole

Literary usage of Sand eel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... adapted from his novel of the same title. He is a member of the academy and a director of the Mazarin library. sand eel. See EEL. ..."

2. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Sherman and others (1981) summarized research in the North Sea which documented an increase in sand eel (Ammodytes sp.) as a result of depleted herring and ..."

3. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"The one and only bait is a living, nay a lively, sand-eel caught from the adjacent sand-bar ; and mark well that it must be a brown sand-eel and not a green ..."

4. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"Ray, in his short notice from Jago's Catalogue, calls his Ammodytes Anglorum verus the true Sand-Eel; and his figure leaves no doubt that his fish is the ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"greater sand-eel is not rarely taken on the mackerel line far out at sea near the ... On the British coasts three species are found : the Greater Sand- Eel ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... adapted from his novel of the same title. He is a member of the academy and a director of the Mazarin library. sand eel. See EEL. ..."

7. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Sherman and others (1981) summarized research in the North Sea which documented an increase in sand eel (Ammodytes sp.) as a result of depleted herring and ..."

8. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"The one and only bait is a living, nay a lively, sand-eel caught from the adjacent sand-bar ; and mark well that it must be a brown sand-eel and not a green ..."

9. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"Ray, in his short notice from Jago's Catalogue, calls his Ammodytes Anglorum verus the true Sand-Eel; and his figure leaves no doubt that his fish is the ..."

10. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"greater sand-eel is not rarely taken on the mackerel line far out at sea near the ... On the British coasts three species are found : the Greater Sand- Eel ..."

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