| NOUN | animal | lamprey, lamprey eel, lamper eel | primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue |
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| Sounds | lae'mpriy | |
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| Rhymes | accusatory ... zealotry: 432 rhymes with riy... | |
| Meaning | Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue. | |
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| Synonyms | lamprey eel, lamper eel | |
| Member of | Petromyzontidae, family Petromyzontidae | lampreys |
| Narrower | sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus | large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food |
| Broader | jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
| Spanish | lamprea | |
| Catalan | llamprea, llampresa | |
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