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Hagfish

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Noun

1. hag, hagfish, 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hagfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
any eel-like marine cyclostome vertebrate of the family Myxinidae, having a round sucking mouth and feeding on the tissues of other animals and on dead organic material
. Often shortened to: hag

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Hagfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈhagˌfish or ˈhagˌfishes
any of an order (Myxiniformes) of small, eel-like marine jawless fishes, with a round, sucking mouth and horny teeth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hagfish

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n. pl. hagfish or hag·fish·es
Any of various elongated slimy marine fishes of the class Myxini (family Myxinidae), lacking jaws and vertebrae and having a sucking mouth with toothlike rasps, used for feeding on invertebrates and for burrowing into or scavenging other fish.

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