hagfish

Meanings

Plural: hagfish, hagfishes

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
• Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.

Synonyms

borer, hag, myxinid, myxinoid, slime eel, slime eels