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SLIME EELS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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; hagfish; slime eels

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("slime eels" is a kind of...):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slime eels"):

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)

Holonyms ("slime eels" is a member of...):

family Myxinidae; Myxinidae (slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes)

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