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

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hagfish , the class Myxini (also known as Hyperotreti ), are eel -shaped, slime-producing marine fish (occasionally called slime eels ). They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column . Along with lampreys , hagfish are ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any of several primitive eellike creatures, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth; considered edible in Japan, their skin is used to make eelskin leather

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. ...

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n. 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 ] [also: hagfishes (pl)]