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hagfish

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Edit: to put things into perspective, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.

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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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noun

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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Core meanings and parts of speech for hagfish.

noun

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.

Example sentences

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Edit: to put things into perspective, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.

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Salmon and hagfish both live in the water, so they're both fish.

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Animals we catch might be a good source for new entries - sharks and sturgeons are ancient, hagfish are eaten.

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Then the vertebrates, with brains, such as hagfish and lampreys.

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I've been trying to get some of my friends to make hagfish jelly.

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Maybe we can use pumps to inject the sand with hagfish slime?

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I kinda want more on why there exists a truckload of hagfish.

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And yet, we usually count hagfish as fish.

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I have been made deeply uncomfortable by hagfish since reading Cruz Smith's Polar Star [1] in high school, where they feature in a minor but electrically memorable plot point.

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Which is to say, the astrology people seem to be pretty decent folks about it, not SCO-type bipedal hagfish in 3-piece suits, or Rightshaven-style copyright sharks with a business model based on IP lawsuits.

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I think the poster above is referring to the observation in the article that they found traces of chemicals suggesting that the fossil had a similar slime to modern hagfish.

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> Which is to say, the astrology people seem to be pretty decent folks about it, not SCO-type bipedal hagfish in 3-piece suits, or Rightshaven-style copyright sharks with a business model based on IP lawsuits.

Quote examples

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I don't know what "the lowest form of intelligence" is, nobody has a clue what cognition means in lampreys and hagfish.

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The semantic category of "fish" includes sharks, bony fish, lung fish/coelecanths and lampreys and hagfish.

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Like lampreys, they have no jaws, and appear to have given rise to other boneless vertebrates." They never name the other group of fish, but the CMS is smart enough to link to hagfish slime.

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I strongly recommend "You're Basically The Hagfish of Reptiles..." [1].

Proper noun examples

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Hagfish and lampreys (the jawless fish) are in a separate group to all other vertebrates that split off before jaws evolved.

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Hagfish lost backbones and snakes lost limbs because nothing is sacred to evolution.

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How do you use hagfish in a sentence?

Edit: to put things into perspective, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.

What does hagfish mean?

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.

What part of speech is hagfish?

hagfish is commonly used as noun.