"glass eel" meaning in English

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          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "name": "Eels",
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          "ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69:",
          "text": "When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The transparent larva of an eel."
      ],
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          "transparent",
          "transparent"
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          "larva",
          "larva"
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          "eel",
          "eel"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "leptocephalus"
        }
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
          "word": "leptotsefaali"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
          "word": "lasiankerias"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
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            "common-gender"
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          "word": "glasål"
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  "word": "glass eel"
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        "The transparent larva of an eel."
      ],
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          "larva",
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          "eel",
          "eel"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "leptocephalus"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
      "word": "leptotsefaali"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
      "word": "lasiankerias"
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      "sense": "transparent larva of an eel",
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      "word": "glasål"
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  "word": "glass eel"
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