Definition of hagfish Hagfish
/hæˈgfɪʃ/ - [hatgfish] - hag•fish
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What does hagfish mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: hagfishes |
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| hagfish - eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | ||
| hag, slime eels | ||
| agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | ||
| family myxinidae, myxinidae slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes | ||
| myxine glutinosa typical hagfish | ||
| eptatretus a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus | ||
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