LEPTOCEPHALUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: leptocephali   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("leptocephalus" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("leptocephalus" is a member of...):

subclass Teleostei; Teleostei (large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species)

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