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Lamprey   /lˈæmpri/   Listen
Lamprey

noun
(pl. lampreys)  (Written also lamprel, and lampron)
1.
Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue.  Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel.



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"Lamprey" Quotes from Famous Books



... deal of pains over drawing up a new syllabus—including dogfish—and making room for it by excluding Amphioxus and all of bird except skeleton. I have added Lamprey (cranial and spinal skeleton, NOT face cartilages), so that the intelligent student may know what a notochord means before he goes to embryology. I have excluded Distoma and ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley


Words linked to "Lamprey" :   agnathan, family Petromyzontidae, jawless fish, sea lamprey, jawless vertebrate, Petromyzontidae, Petromyzon marinus


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