hagfish

/ˌhægˈfɪʃ/

Definitions of hagfish

1. noun

   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
   synonyms: hag, slime eels

   types:

   Myxine glutinosa

   typical hagfish

   eptatretus

   a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus

   Myxinikela siroka

   fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes

   type of:

   agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate

   eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms