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Definition: Lamprey |
LampreyNoun1. Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lamprey" was first used: some time around 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Lamprey \Lam"prey\, noun; plural Lampreys. [from Old English expression lampreie, French lamproie, Late Latin expression lampreda, lampetra, from the Latin expression lambere to lick petra rock, stone. The lampreys are so called because they attach themselves with their circular mouths to rocks and stones, whence they are also called rocksuckers. See Lap to drink, Petrify.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: LampreySynonyms: lamper eel (n), lamprey eel (n). (additional references) |
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A lamprey is a type of fish with a toothed, funnel-like, jawless sucking mouth with which it bores into the flesh of other fishes to suck their blood. In Zoology, Lampreys are not reckoned to be true fish because of the vastly different build of their body.
Lampreys live in coastal and freshwaters and are found in most temperate regions except Africa. Outwardly resembling eels in that they have no scaless, an adult lamprey can range anywhere from 5 to 40 inches (13 to 100 centimetres) long. Lampreys have one or two dorsal fins, large eyes, one nostril on the top of their head, and seven gills on each side. A lamprey has cartilage instead of bones and is on the borderline between vertebrates and invertebrates.
Lampreys begin life as burrowing, freshwater larvae (ammocoetes). At this stage, they are toothless, have rudimentary eyes, and feed on microorganisms. After several years, they transform into adults and typically move into the sea to begin a parasitic life, attaching to a fish by their mouths and feeding on the blood and tissues of the host. To reproduce, lampreys return to freshwater, build a nest, then spawn, that is, lay their eggs, and die. Yet not all lampreys can be found in the sea. Some lampreys are landlocked and remain in freshwater, and some of these stop feeding altogether as soon as they have left the larval stage.
Lampreys have long been used as food for humans.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lamprey."
Crosswords: Lamprey |
| English words defined with "lamprey": Cyclostomi ♦ Hag ♦ Lampern, Lamprel, lamprey eel, Lampreys, Lampron ♦ Marsipobranchia ♦ Nine-eyes ♦ Petromyzon marinus, Petromyzont ♦ Rocksucker ♦ Sand pride, sea lamprey, Stone grig. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lamprey": Lampern. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lamprey" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (lamprey). |
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| "Lamprey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.00% of the time. "Lamprey" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 56% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 44% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lamprey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lamprey | Last name | 130 | 56,055 |
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Expressions using "lamprey": lamprey eel ♦ sea lamprey. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lamprey | 80 |
lamprey sea | 25 |
lamprey eel | 23 |
lamprey picture | 8 |
care health lamprey | 6 |
lamprey picture sea | 5 |
lamprey pacific | 5 |
lamprey lamprey | 4 |
lamprey river | 4 |
brook lamprey | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lamprey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الجلكي نوع سمك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Минога. (various references) | |
Chinese | 七腮鳗 (Lampreys). (various references) | |
Czech | Mihule. (various references) | |
Danish | Vladykovs lampret (Vladikov's lamprey), ukrainsk lampret (Ukranian lamprey), havnegenøje (sea lamprey), havlampret (sea lamprey), flodniøje (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), flodnegenøje (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), flodlampret (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), Donau-lampret (Carpathian lamprey), bæknegenøje (brook lamprey), bæklampret (brook lamprey). (various references) | |
Dutch | zeeprik (nannie nine eyes, sea lamprey, sea-lamprey, stone sucker), zeelampre (sea lamprey), zandprik (brook lamprey), Vladikov's prik (Vladikov's lamprey), Vladikovs prik (Vladikov's lamprey), rivierprik (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), rivierlamprei (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), Oekraïense prik (Ukranian lamprey), negenooge (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), kleine negenoog (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey, stone eel), Donauprik (Carpathian lamprey), beekprik (brook lamprey). (various references) | |
Farsi | مارماهی(ج.ش.). (various references) | |
Finnish | vladikovinnahkiainen (Vladikov's lamprey), ukrainannahkiainen (Ukranian lamprey), tonavannahkiainen (Carpathian lamprey), pikkunahkiainen (brook lamprey), nahkiainen (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey), merinahkiainen (sea lamprey, sucking fish), jokinahkiainen (freshwater lamprey, lampern, lamprey-eel, mud lamprey, river lamprey). (various references) | |
French | Lamproie (sea lamprey). (various references) | |
German | Lamprete (sea lamprey), Neunauge, Bricke. (various references) | |
Greek | όύραινα, Σμύραινα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Ingóla. (various references) | |
Italian | Lampreda. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 八目鰻 (lamprey eel), 八つ目鰻 (lamprey eel). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やつめうなぎ (lamprey eel). (various references) | |
Korean | 성장어 (Lampreys). (various references) | |
Manx | lamprey, beisht yn daa hooill yeig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampreylay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Autor De Pasquim (lampoonist). (various references) | |
Russian | Минога. (various references) | |
Scottish | naid (a lamprey), creathall (a lamprey, cradle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zmijuljica. (various references) | |
Spanish | Satirizar Lamprea, Hacer Sátiras De Lamprea. (various references) | |
Swedish | Nejonöga. (various references) | |
Turkish | Taşemen, Bofa Balığı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | Мінога. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | chatouille, Eudontomyzon danfordi, Eudontomyzon mariae, Eudontomyzon vladykovi, lambere, Lampetra fluviatilis, Lampetra planeri, lamproie de planer, Petromyzon fluviatilis, Petromyzon marinus, Petromyzontidae, VE Lampreta planeri, VE petite lamproie. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | lampetra. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lamprey": lampreys. (additional references) | |
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"Lamprey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alampiev, lamper, lampry, Lempert. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lamprey" (pronounced la"mprē) |
| 3 | -p r ē | osprey. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: ampler, palmer, parley, pearly, player, replay. | |
-2 letters: ample, amply, apery, early, lamer, layer, leary, maple, marly, mealy, paler, palmy, parle, payer, pearl, plyer, realm, relay, remap, repay, reply. | |
-3 letters: aery, alme, amyl, aper, army, aryl, earl, elmy, eyra, lame, lamp, leap, lear, lyre, male, mare, marl, meal, merl, pale, palm, paly, pare, peal, pear, perm, play, plea, pram, pray, prey, pyre, rale, ramp, rape, real, ream, reap, rely, yare, year, yelp, ylem. | |
-4 letters: ale, alp, amp, ape, are, arm, aye, ear, elm, era, lam, lap, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, mae, map, mar, may, mel, pal, pam, par, pay, pea, per, ply, pry, pya, pye, ram, rap, ray, rem, rep, rya, rye, yam, yap, yar, yea, yep. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, am, ar, ay, el, em, er, la, ma, me, my, pa, pe, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: empyreal, lampreys. | |
+2 letters: exemplary, playmaker. | |
+3 letters: hypodermal, imperially, lampoonery, malapertly, playmakers, polymerase, presumably, primevally, propylaeum, temporally. | |
+4 letters: empirically, ephemerally, exemplarily, exemplarity, hypothermal, impregnably, multiplayer, parenchymal, permanently, polarimetry, polymerases, preliminary, prematurely, proximately, superfamily, temperately, temporality, temporarily. | |
+5 letters: cephalometry, ephemerality, extemporally, hyperlipemia, hypermutable, hyperrealism, impenetrably, imperatively, imperishably, impersonally, imponderably, microcephaly, permeability, premaritally, premaxillary, rampageously, superhumanly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6D 70 72 65 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -- .--. .-. . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a m p r e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006D 0070 0072 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46677982847191 |
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