glass eel

noun

glass eel

noun

1

Transparent larva of an eel.

When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69:

Synonyms: leptocephalus

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