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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAND LANCE

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Sand lance is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SAND LANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Sand lance

A sand lance or sandlance is a fish belonging to the family Ammodytidae. Several species of sand lances are commonly known as "sand eels" or "sandeels", though they are not related to true eels. Another variant name is launce, and all names of the fish are references to its slender body and pointed snout. The family name means "sand burrower", which describes the sand lance's habit of burrowing into sand to avoid tidal currents. Sand lances are most commonly encountered by fishermen in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, but are found in oceans throughout the world. These fish do not have pelvic fins and do not develop swim bladders, staying true to their bottom-dwelling habit as adults. Both adult and larval sea lances primarily feed on copepods. Larval forms of this fish are perhaps the most abundant of all fish larvae in areas such as the northwest Atlantic, serving as a major food item for cod, salmon, whales and other commercially important species. As adults, sand lances are harvested commercially in some areas, leading to direct human competition with diving birds such as puffins, auks, terns, and cormorants.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAND LANCE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SAND LANCE

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Synonyms and antonyms of sand lance in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sand lance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAND LANCE

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The translations of sand lance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sand lance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

砂枪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sand lance
570 millions of speakers

English

sand lance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेत लांस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انس الرمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

песчанка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

areia lance
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বালি ল্যান্স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lançon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tombak pasir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sand Lanze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

イカナゴ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

까나리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pasir lance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lance cát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணல் லான்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाळूचा भाकित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kum püskürtme borusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sand lance
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lanca piasek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

песчанка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nisip lance
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λόγχη άμμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sand Lance
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sand lans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tobis
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAND LANCE»

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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish
American sand lance Ammodytes americanus Northern sand lance Ammodytes dubius Pacific sand lance Ammodytes hexapterus OTHER NAMES Sand launce, sand eel, launce-fish, sandlance; French: lançon. Distribution. Sand lance occur  ...
Ken Schultz, 2011
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Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries
Close relatives of the sand lance occur in tropical waters and may have a common ancestry with the more northern species. The difficulty in designating species suggests that separations between the northeast and northwest Atlantic and the ...
George A. Rose, 2007
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Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems
The specifics of the ecological role for these whales change in response to changes in the ecosystem (e.g., switching from herring to sand lance to herring as prey), but the generalized roles likely have remained consistent. The magnitude or ...
James A. Estes, 2006
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Dynamic Modeling for Marine Conservation
You may want to think of W as a population of whales and S as the sand lance ( Amodytes americanus) on which they feed. In short, dW/dt and dS/dt are appreviated with a dot over the symbol for the respective state variable. Both of these ...
Matthias Ruth, James Lindholm, 2002
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Recreational Fisheries of Coastal New England
Sherman (1981) explained this and a similar sand lance population increase that occurred in the North Sea as being the result of the replacement of midsized predators by smaller, faster-growing species when the predators were being ...
Michael R. Ross, 1991
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Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet
Both burrowing and emergence are extremely rapid, the fish entering and leaving the surface almost vertically at swimming speed. Coastal sand lance may bury themselves above low-water mark and remain buried as the tide recedes and ...
C. John Ralph, 1997
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Balao) The first Sand Lance, a submarine, was laid down on 12 March 1943 by the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard; launched on 25 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Edith Burrows; and commissioned on 9 October 1943 at Portsmouth, N.H., ...
James L. Mooney, 1976
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Fly Fishing for Sea-run Cutthroat
Would the sea-run cutthroat trout slide into that tiny little rip to pound sand lance and sculpin? I had to find out—and hopefully feel the electric charge of a fish on the line. I know this sounds weird. Then again, I'm not a sensible person. I'm an ...
Chester Allen, 2012
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Island Stripers: A Fisherman's Guide to Block Island
Sand lance congregate in dense schools, ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of individuals. OFFSHORE SAND LANCE / Ammodytes dllbllu Reinhard! 1837 / Noflhemsand Lam-c.5md Figure 259. Ofixhore and lance Animal)“: Jnbiva.
Capt. Al Anderson, 2012
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Proposed North Aleutian Basin Lease Sale, Sale 92: Final ...
In the Bering Sea, it is believed that sand lance spawn in the winter in areas with sandy substrates (Lewbel, 1983). The demersal, adhesive eggs usually hatch within a month, depending on the temperature (Macy et al., 1978). Yolk-sac larvae ...
‎1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAND LANCE»

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Dead Fish, Wildlife In Aleutians May Be Victims Of Toxic Algae …
“In the past, we've seen incidences where sand lance, a little plankton-eating fish, was accumulating these high toxins from these algae in their system. «Alaska Public Radio Network, Jul 15»
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UPDATE: Man rescued after being trapped waist-deep in mud on …
He was rescued in a joint operation by Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, South Western paramedics and coastguard teams. Firefighters used a sand lance which ... «Dorset Echo, Feb 15»
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Biologist Reveals How Whales May 'Sing' for Their Supper
Mostly sand lance—eel-like fish known to bury themselves in the sand of the ... Parks suggests that whales' vocal sounds may help flush the sand lance out of ... «Syracuse University News, Dec 14»
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Humpback Whales make 'tick-tock' sounds to flush out fish hiding …
Tasty: The whales in this study mainly fed on sand lance (pictured). Sand lances are most commonly found by fishermen in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
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Whale watchers gather as sightings spike this summer
The video showed sand lance darting around in schools, and burrowing in the seabed to hide from predators. But as researchers watched the deep water ... «CBS News, Jul 14»
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Whale numbers are up, delighting watchers
The footage showed Sand Lance darting around in schools, and burrowing in the seabed to hide from predators. But as researchers watched the deep water ... «CBS News, Jun 14»
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Changes in forage fish abundance alter Atlantic cod distribution …
"Atlantic herring and sand lance are dominant prey for Atlantic cod in the Gulf of Maine. This long, standardized time series of data has been invaluable to our ... «Phys.Org, Jun 14»
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Whale watchers in humpback bliss
The wealth of sand lance, which travel in schools of tens of thousands, provides easy, calorie-rich food for the whales, which live in the waters off Massachusetts ... «Boston Globe, May 14»
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Estuary Dining - It's the Time for Sand Lance
Sand Lance are a dominant food source for estuary dwelling game fish in Southeast Alaska. Fly designs vary slightly from pattern to pattern, but they all share ... «Capital city weekly, May 14»
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WDFW schedules public meetings on plans to survey beaches for …
The surveys are designed to determine where and when forage fish, such as surf smelt and Pacific sand lance, spawn in southern Puget Sound, said Phillip ... «Access Washington, May 14»

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