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n. Any of various primitive elongated freshwater or anadromous fishes of the family Petromyzontidae, characteristically having a jawless sucking mouth with rasping teeth. Also called lamper eel.

n. Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the Petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

n. An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera; called also lamprey eel and lamper eel. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.

n. A marsipobranchiate fish, of an elongated or eel-like form when adult.

n. primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue

"The lamprey is the octopus, the devil-fish, of these waters, and there is, perhaps, no tragedy enacted here that equals that of one of these vampires slowly sucking the life out of a bass or a trout."

agnathan    jawless fish    jawless vertebrate   

silvery lamprey    brook-lamprey   

lamprey eel    lamper eel    cyclostomi    lamprel    lampron   

petromyzon marinus    sea lamprey   

brook lamprey    sea lamprey    European river lamprey   

marbled    gudgeon    pin-size    bream    kitten-like    stingray    pollack    conger    cornopean    half-unconscious