Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The river-lamprey, Petromyzon or Ammocætes fluviatilis.
- noun The butter-fish, Murænoides gunnellus: so called with reference to the presence of nine or more round black ocelli or eye-like spots along the dorsal fin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The lamprey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
lamprey .
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Examples
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He owned to having over-eaten himself once, and only once: "Nine nine-eyes (lampreys) did I eat."
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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