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Elver

British pronunciation/ˈɛlvɐ/
American pronunciation/ˈɛlvɚ/
Elver
[NOUN]
1

a small and young eel

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2

young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried

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Examples
1Today, we know the freshwater eel lifecycle has five distinct stages: larval leptocepheli, miniscule glass eels, adolescent elvers, older yellow eels, and adult silver eels.
2Those that make it upstream develop into opaque elvers.
3Having finally arrived in their hunting grounds, elvers begin to eat everything they can fit into their mouths.
4We have our own guy behind the curtains pulling all the elvers and we just have to go and pull the right ones.
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