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LEPTOCEPHALUS (leptocephali)
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Irregular inflected form: leptocephali
Dictionary entry overview: What does leptocephalus mean?
• LEPTOCEPHALUS (noun)
The noun LEPTOCEPHALUS has 1 sense:
1. slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes
Familiarity information: LEPTOCEPHALUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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