slime eels
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate, |
| definition | : | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | myxine glutinosa, |
| definition | : | typical hagfish (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | eptatretus, |
| definition | : | a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | myxinikela siroka, |
| definition | : | fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family myxinidae, myxinidae, |
| definition | : | slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes (noun.animal) |
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