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LAMPER EEL

• LAMPER EEL (noun)
The noun LAMPER EEL has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: LAMPER EEL used as a noun is very rare.

• LAMPER EEL (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("lamper 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 "lamper eel"):

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

Holonyms ("lamper eel" is a member of...):

family Petromyzontidae; Petromyzontidae (lampreys)

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