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Noun: lamper eel
  1. Primitive eel-like freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
    - lamprey, lamprey eel

Derived forms: lamper eels

Type of: agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate

Part of: family Petromyzontidae, Petromyzontidae