sand lance

2 definitions found

sand lance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lance fish \Lance" fish`\n. (Zool.)
     A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially
     Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also
     sand lance.
     [1913 Webster] Lancegay

sand lance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sand lance
      n 1: very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow
           into sandy beaches [syn: sand lance, sand launce, sand eel
           , launce]