launce

launce

L0032700 (lăns, läns, lôns)n. See sand lance.

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[Perhaps alteration of lance.]

launce

(lɑːns) n (Animals) another name for the sand eel

sand′ lance`

n. any slender marine fish of the family Ammodytidae that burrows into the sand. [1770–80; appar. lance, from its shape]

Thesaurus

Noun

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launce - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beachessand eel, sand lance, sand launceacanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysAmmodytes, genus Ammodytes - type genus of the Ammodytidae