EPTATRETUS

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Meaning:

A fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus

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Hypernyms ("eptatretus" is a kind of...):

hag; hagfish; slime eels (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)

Holonyms ("eptatretus" is a member of...):

genus Eptatretus (a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae)

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