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Hagfish

//ˈhæɡˌfɪʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

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From hag + fish.

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