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hagfish

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From hag +‎ fish.

A hagfish

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hagfish (countable and uncountable, plural hagfish or hagfishes)

  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.

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