elver
noun/ˈelvə(r)/
/ˈelvər/
- a young eelTopics Fish and shellfishc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: variant of dialect eel-fare ‘the passage of young eels up a river’, also ‘a brood of young eels’, from eel + fare in its original sense ‘a journey’.
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