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Definition of Sand eel
1. Noun. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
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
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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