Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The small, laterally compressed, transparent larva of an eel or of any of certain related fishes, such as a tarpon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spurious genus of eel-like fishes, having a very thin diaphanous body, formerly regarded as a valid generic type and hence giving name to the Leptocephalidæ, but now generally considered to be the larval form of a conger.
- noun The larval or aborted stage of the conger and allied fishes, when the body is much compressed and hyaline and no generative organs are developed.
- noun The genus otherwise called
Conger .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
larva of aneel , flat in shape and transparent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The larva of moray eels, called leptocephalus, get distributed throughout the oceans.
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head."
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The hatched leptocephalus drift with the North Equatorial Current toward Philippine.
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