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Definition of: hagfish
(hag′fish′) noun plural ·fish or ·fish·es
A primitive eel-like marine cyclostome (order or subclass Myxinoidea), allied to the lamprey, which bores its way into the bodies of living fishes by means of a rasping suctorial mouth. [<HAG2, v. + FISH]
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