Definition of Lampreys

1. Noun. (plural of lamprey) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lampreys

1. lamprey [n] - See also: lamprey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lampreys

lampooneries
lampooners
lampoonery
lampooning
lampoonry
lampoons
lampost
lamposts
lampp
lamppost
lampposts
lamprel
lamprels
lamprey eel
lampreys (current term)
lampricidal
lampricide
lampricides
lampriform
lampriforms
lamproite
lamproites
lampron
lamprons
lamprophonic
lamprophony
lamprophyllite
lamprophyre
lamprophyres

Literary usage of Lampreys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XIII THE CYCLOSTOMES, OR lampreys HE lampreys.—Passing upward from the ... It includes the forms known as lampreys, slime-eels, and hagfishes. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"THE lampreys OF ... be used by successive pairs of lampreys. 6. The larvae, or Immature forms, live in the sand along the edge of the stream just below the ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Omitting from consideration the lowest vertebrata, the sand-lances and lampreys, which are not fishes, we have remaining a body of animals which pre- PIO. ..."

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