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LAMPREY EEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lamprey eel mean?
• LAMPREY EEL (noun)
The noun LAMPREY EEL has 1 sense:
1. primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
Familiarity information: LAMPREY EEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
lamper eel; lamprey; lamprey eel
Hypernyms ("lamprey eel" 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 eel"):
Petromyzon marinus; sea lamprey (large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes)
Holonyms ("lamprey eel" is a member of...):
family Petromyzontidae; Petromyzontidae (lampreys)
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