lamprey eel

What does lamprey eel mean?

lamprey eel means "primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue".

What is another word for lamprey eel?

Close synonyms include lamprey, lamper eel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lamprey eel a common word?

lamprey eel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lamprey eel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.