Usually means: Jawless fish with suction-cup mouth.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (lamprey)

noun:  Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
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