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hagfish

Noun

hag=fish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

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

hagfish, n.

See Hag, 4. [1913 Webster]

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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