Definition of "elver" []

• See glass eel. (noun)

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• "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."