lamprey eel

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lamprey eel - primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tonguelamper eel, lampreyagnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate - eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct formsfamily Petromyzontidae, Petromyzontidae - lampreysPetromyzon marinus, sea lamprey - large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes