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Definition of Lamprey eel
1. Noun. Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue.
Generic synonyms: Agnathan, Jawless Fish, Jawless Vertebrate
Group relationships: Family Petromyzontidae, Petromyzontidae
Specialized synonyms: Petromyzon Marinus, Sea Lamprey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamprey Eel
Literary usage of Lamprey eel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-book Exhibiting the Development by Edwin Troxell Freedley (1859)
"... sun-fish are caught in the Bay, and are succeeded by herrings, shad, roach,
four kinds of cat-fish, four kinds of perch, rock, lamprey eel, common eel, ..."
2. The Angler's Guide: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling by Thomas Frederick Salter (1815)
"lamprey eel. The lamprey eel is of the shape of the Lamprey or Seven Eyes, ...
The lamprey eel is frequently caught in the river Severn, near Gloucester, ..."
3. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1810)
"nous progency; and this is supported by analogy in the lamprey eel, which breeds
commonly enough in most of our estuaries. The tenacious vitality of the eel ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"UNCLE TOM'S lamprey eel. Uncle Tom, now dead, was a great sportsman, fond of both
fishing and hunting. Profane, eccentric, careless regarding religious ..."
5. The Angler's Guide: Being a New, Plain, and Complete Practical Treatise on by Thomas Frederick Salter (1825)
"lamprey eel. The lamprey eel is of the shape of the Lamprey, or Seven Eyes, but
of a much larger size, being taken sometimes nearly three feet long; ..."
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