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English noun: hagfish

1. hagfish (animal) 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


Synonymshag, slime eels


Broader (hypernym)agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate


Narrower (hyponym)eptatretus, Myxine glutinosa, Myxinikela siroka


Member meronymfamily Myxinidae, Myxinidae









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