lamprey
11lamprey — noun (plural lampreys) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French lampreie, from Medieval Latin lampreda Date: 14th century any of a family (Petromyzontidae) of eel shaped freshwater or anadromous jawless fishes that include those cyclostomes… …
12lamprey — [ lampri] noun (plural lampreys) an eel like jawless fish, often parasitic, that has a sucker mouth with horny teeth and a rasping tongue. [Family Petromyzonidae: several species.] Origin ME: from OFr. lampreie, from med. L. lampreda, prob. from… …
13lamprey — /ˈlæmpri / (say lampree) noun (plural lampreys or lamprey) any of the eel like jawless fishes of the class Agnatha. Some species are parasitic, attaching themselves to fishes and rasping a hole in the flesh with their horny teeth so that they can …
14lamprey — минога sea lamprey морская минога …
15lamprey eel — Lamprey Lam prey (l[a^]m pr[y^]), n.; pl. {Lampreys} (l[a^]m pr[i^]z). [OE. lampreie, F. lamproie, LL. lampreda, lampetra, from L. lambere to lick + petra rock, stone. The lampreys are so called because they attach themselves with their circular… …
16Lamprey (disambiguation) — Lamprey may refer to: *lamprey, a kind of fish; *Lamprey (G.I. Joe), a series of characters in the G.I. Joe Universe; *a song by Jimmy Buffett; *an album by Bettie Serveert …
17Lamprey (comics) — Superherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080 character name=Lamprey real name=Donald McGuiggin species= publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Squadron Supreme #5 (Jan 1986) creators=Mark Gruenwald alliance color=background:#c0c0ff… …
18Lamprey River — The Lamprey River is a 50.2 mile long (80.8 km) [ [http://www.granit.sr.unh.edu NH GRANIT database] ] river in southeastern New Hampshire, the United States. It rises in Meadow Lake in Northwood, and flows south, then generally east past Raymond …
19Lamprey (G.I. Joe) — Infobox G.I. Joe character name = Lamprey caption = affiliation = Cobra function = Hydrofoil Pilot realname = VARIOUS NAMES birthplace = VARIOUS COUNTRIES serial = rank = O 3 primaryMOS = Hydrofoil Pilot secondaryMOS = Cobra Frogmen (Eels)… …
20lamprey eel — noun primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue • Syn: ↑lamprey, ↑lamper eel • Hypernyms: ↑jawless vertebrate, ↑jawless fish, ↑agnathan • Hyponyms: ↑ …
