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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



... would amount to solution of the question, if the Lindegreens had about 150 years ago any property or occupation in this lane. The Dutch had necessarily much intercourse with Hull: one of their imports was the lamprey, chiefly as bait for turbot, cod, &c. obtained in the Ouse near the mouth of the Derwent; which fish was conveyed in boats in Ouse Water, and was kept alive and lively by means of poles made to revolve in these floating ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 • Various

... neatly dressed by our owne only mayde. We had a fricasee of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three carps in a dish, a great dish of a side of lambe, a dish of roasted pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie (a most rare pie), a dish of anchovies, good wine of several sorts, and all things mighty noble and to ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... hogfish and lamprey in American waters—that's a near-fish that sucks the blood of other fish, you know—should be exterminated just in the same way that the farmers of the country are making away with the Canada thistle. Against the sharks—the ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... exposed to so many dangers, that a very small proportion can ever become fishes, for beside being the constant prey of birds and fishes, a great many nests are made so near the shore, in shallow water, that they are left dry in a few days, as the river goes down. These and the lamprey's are the only fishes' nests that I have observed, though the ova of some species may be seen floating on the surface. The breams are so careful of their charge that you may stand close by in the water and examine them at your leisure. I have thus stood over them half ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... A lamprey now appears, a sprawling fish, With shrimps about it swimming in the dish. Whereon our host remarks: "This fish was caught While pregnant: after spawning it is naught. We make our sauce with oil, of the best strain Venafrum yields, and caviare from Spain, ...
— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace



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



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