hagfish
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 • Syn: hag, slime eels • Hypernyms: jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan • Hyponyms: Myxine glutinosa, eptatretus, Myxinikela siroka • Member Holonyms: Myxinidae, family Myxinidae
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