---

• s  resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous

• A sea lamprey, one of millions of the slimy, eellike creatures that infest the Great Lakes, had sunk its teeth through her bathing suit, and was trying to attach its .
• Observers noted that the lamprey, an eellike creature about two feet long, reaches maturity in the Lakes and then migrates up the rivers to spawn.
• Ahmed Hussein was in the tightest squeeze of his nimble life, but in his 42 years Hussein had slipped eellike out of nets before.