HyperDic: slime_eels

English > 1 sense of the expression slime eels:
NOUNanimalslime eels, hagfish, hageellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles
English > slime eels: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningeellike 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.
Synonymshagfish, hag
Member ofMyxinidae, family Myxinidaeslime-producing marine animals
NarrowerMyxine glutinosatypical hagfish
Myxinikela sirokafossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
eptatretusA fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Broaderjawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathaneel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Spanishmixino, myxini
Catalanmixinoïdeu

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