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LAMPREY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue

Synonyms:

lamper eel; lamprey; lamprey eel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lamprey" is a kind of...):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lamprey"):

Petromyzon marinus; sea lamprey (large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes)

Holonyms ("lamprey" is a member of...):

family Petromyzontidae; Petromyzontidae (lampreys)

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