| NOUN | animal | hagfish, hag, slime eels | eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles |
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| Sounds | hhae'gfihsh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| 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. | |
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| 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 | |
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