hagfish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *hagfish*:
NOUN	animal	hagfish, hag, slime eels	eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles

hagfish > pronunciation
Sounds	hhae'gfihsh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *hagfish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	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.
Synonyms	hag, slime eels
Member of	Myxinidae, family Myxinidae	slime-producing marine animals
Narrower	Myxine glutinosa	typical hagfish
	Myxinikela siroka	fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
	eptatretus	A fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Broader	jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan	eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Spanish	mixino, myxini
Catalan	mixinoïdeu

HyperDic: hagfish