¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lampreys
1. lamprey [n] - See also: lamprey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lampreys
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. ..."