lamprea
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
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lamprea is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre común a unas cuarenta especies de cordados de la familia de los petromizóntidos (Petromyzontidae), sin mandíbulas afines a los peces, de cuerpo redondo, que se pegan a otras especies de pece... Pronounced [lãmˈpɾea].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamprea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lãmˈpɾea] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for lamprea is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lãmˈpɾea]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lamprea in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is lamprea, spelled L-A-M-P-R-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre común a unas cuarenta especies de cordados de la familia de los petromizóntidos (Petromyzontidae), sin mandíbulas afines a los peces, de cuerpo redondo, que se pegan a otras especies de peces y mamíferos para alimentarse de su sangre y líquidos corporales.
- 2(Petromyzon marinus) Ciclóstomo marino del Atlántico que desova en los ríos. De aspecto similar a la anguila, sin mandíbula (agnato), de cuerpo redondo, sin escamas, mide hasta un metro de largo, y pesa normalmente unos dos kilos y medio. Es un parásito de otros peces y de mamíferos marinos, a los cuales se adhiere fuertemente y de los que se alimenta succionándoles sus líquidos corporales. Es comestible.
- 3(Lampetra fluviatilis) Mide unos 50 cm. Comestible, requiere ser limpiada de un moco tóxico que la recubre.
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