Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The river-lamprey, Petromyzon fluviatilis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The river lamprey (
Ammocœtes fluviatilis syn.Lampetra fluviatilis ).
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- noun The
European river lamprey , Lampetra fluviatilis.
Etymologies
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From Middle English laumproun, adopted from Old French lampreon, diminutive of lampreie ("lamprey").
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Examples
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Our streams, which are small, and rise only at the end of the village, yield nothing but the bull's head or miller's thumb (_gobius fluviatilis capitatus_), the trout (_trutta fluviatilis_), the eel (_anguilla_), the lampern (_lampoetra parva et fluviatilis_), and the stickleback
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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