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LAMPER EEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lamper eel mean?
• 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.
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 ("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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