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    LAMPREY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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