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Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
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launce
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WordNet
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n. very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches [syn: sand lance , sand launce , sand eel ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Lant \Lant\, n. [Cf. Lance .] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes . The common European species ( Ammedytes tobianus ) and the American species ( Ammedytes Americanus ) live on sandy shores, buried ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A lance. Etymology 2 n. (context obsolete English) A balance. Etymology 3 n. (context zoology English) greater sand eel, (taxlink Hyperoplus lanceolatus species noshow=1)
Wikipedia
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Launce can refer to: A character in Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona A type of fish, also known as a Sand lance