Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leptocephalus

1 sense of leptocephalus

Sense 1
leptocephalus -- (slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes)
       => 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)