noun
definition
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
Examples of lamprey in a Sentence
In North America about ten species of lamprey occur, while in South America and Australasia still others are found.
The Piscataqua is a tidal estuary fed chiefly by the Salmon Falls, Lamprey and Exeter rivers.
The carp and salmon tribes are the most abundant; after them rank the pike, the eel, the shad, the roach, the perch and the lamprey.
Mackerel, cod, pollack and flat-fishes are the kinds most frequently attacked by them in the sea; of river-fish the migratory Salmonidae and the shad are sometimes found with the marks of the teeth of the lamprey, or with the fish actually attached to them.
Woollen cloth, machinery and spirits are manufactured; there is an extensive salt-mine in the neighbouring Zillenberg; the salmon and lamprey fisheries are important; and a fair amount of commercial activity is maintained.
Vertebrate species in the Irish Vertebrate Red Data Book include whiskered bat, shoveler, pochard and brook lamprey.
River Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lake Cumbria The Derwent represents brook lamprey Lampetra planeri in a high-quality, oligotrophic river in northern England.
Both salmon and brown trout are present in the river, in addition to species such as brook lamprey.
In addition, the river supports a good range of native fish species, including brook lamprey and brown trout.
I have only two other records for sea lamprey in Channel Island waters.
At sea, river lamprey feed on a wide variety of small fish.
Clive Tallet fished the entrance to the jungle and took two good zander early week on float tactics fishing lamprey section.
River Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lake Cumbria The Derwent represents sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus in a high-quality oligotrophic river in northern England.
Fishing pegs 39 and 37, Mark fished lamprey and herring taking both big zander on each bait with the pike falling to lamprey.
The origin of the name lamprey is obscure; it is an adaptation of Fr.