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Definition of Ammodytes
1. Noun. Type genus of the Ammodytidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Ammodytidae, Family Ammodytidae
Member holonyms: Launce, Sand Eel, Sand Lance, Sand Launce
Definition of Ammodytes
1. Noun. (plural of ammodyte) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammodytes
Literary usage of Ammodytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Ammodytes, Lin. An elongated body like that of the preceding fishes, provided
with a fin, having articulated but simple rays, occupying a great part of the ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"Ammodytes siculus (Swains. ... maculatus and Ammodytes ... and the eyes of three
of them are conspicuously larger than in their congeners (Ammodytes lancea, ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Sand-lance, Ammodytes americanus De Kay. Nan tucket. leaves a sandy beach fairly
covered with living "lants " looking like a moving foam of silver. ..."
4. Elements of medical zoology by Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Robert Thomas Hulme (1861)
"The Vipera Ammodytes, which has a horn on the muzzle,1 (fig. 77,) inhabits the
mountains of Dauphiné ; the head is separated from the body by a distinct ..."
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