'sand lance' definitions:
Definition of 'sand lance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches [syn: sand lance, sand launce, sand eel, launce]
Definition of 'sand lance'
From: GCIDE
- 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