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Definition of "elver" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "elver" in a sentence
  • "The elver is the baby freshwater eel that is born in the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda and drifts over to Europe on the Gulf Stream in the spring."
  • "Shortz, whose undemanding intellectual rigor -- An adult elver?"
  • "Thanks to everyone who pointed out that an elver is a kind of eel."
Words like "elver"
demon-haunted
eel
elvene
espalier
fetterless
half-stupefied
montane
naaman
non-controversial
seamanlike
serpents'
snow-clogged