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hag

DEFINITIONS OF: hag

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n an ugly evil-looking old woman

Synonyms:
beldam, beldame, crone, witch
Type of:
old woman
a woman who is old

n 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

Synonyms:
hagfish, slime eels
Types:
Myxine glutinosa
typical hagfish
eptatretus
a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Myxinikela siroka
fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
Type of:
agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate
eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
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