sea lamprey

1. 1.

   large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes

   SynonymsPetromyzon marinus

   Broaderlamprey

   Part ofPetromyzon

Questions about sea lamprey

What does sea lamprey mean?

sea lamprey means "large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes".

What is another word for sea lamprey?

Close synonyms include Petromyzon marinus. 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 sea lamprey a common word?

sea lamprey 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.