Definition 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.

Exact synonyms: Hag, Slime Eels
Generic synonyms: Agnathan, Jawless Fish, Jawless Vertebrate
Group relationships: Family Myxinidae, Myxinidae
Specialized synonyms: Myxine Glutinosa, Eptatretus, Myxinikela Siroka

Definition of Hagfish

1. n. See Hag, 4.

Definition of Hagfish

1. Noun. 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 a form of leather ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hagfish

1. an eellike fish [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagfish

hagborn
hagbush
hagbushes
hagbut
hagbuts
hagden
hagdens
hagdon
hagdons
hagdown
hagdowns
hageman factor deficiency
hagendorfite
hagfish (current term)
hagfishes
hagg
haggadahs
haggadas
haggadic
haggadist
haggadistic
haggadists
haggadot
haggadoth
haggard
haggardly
haggardness
haggardnesses

Literary usage of Hagfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"About five o'clock I noticed that the two hagfish were very languid and stretched almost straight. On testing the water I found that it had risen to 29° C. ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In gill-nets in Monterey Bay great mischief is done by hagfish ... It is a curious fact that large numbers of hagfish eggs are taken from the stomachs of ..."

3. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"The hagfish is the only fish which lives wholly as a parasite. ... Now the pursuit of the hagfish at Pacific Grove has become something of an industry of ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"The California hagfish possesses three well-developed hearts, ... The blood of the hagfish has a concentration very close to that of the sea water in which ..."

5. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"The hagfish. or hides among the branches of the coral, so that it finds here both home and pantry—bed and ... The hagfish, however, first fastens itself ..."

6. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"... posterior roots of the auditory nerve innervate the anterior and posterior ends of the canal rec a. uL «u.. Cut f.—The right internal ear of the hagfish ..."

7. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Amer. Nat., Boston, Mass., 36, 1902, (803-808). 5411 PHYSIOLOGY. GENERAL. Greene, Charles Wilson. Contribution to the physiology of the California hagfish, ..."

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