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hagfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hagfish has 1 sense
- hagfish(n = noun.animal) hag, slime eels - 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; Array is a kind of agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate
is a member of family myxinidae, myxinidae
has particulars: myxine glutinosa, eptatretus, myxinikela siroka
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hagfish, n. any jawless fish of the family Myxinidae, with a rasp-like tongue used for feeding on dead or dying fish.
Etymology
HAG(1)
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