Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hagfish

1 sense of hagfish

Sense 1
hagfish, hag, 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)
       => jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan -- (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)