hagfish

English

Etymology

hag +‎ fish

A hagfish

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• borer
• hag
• myxinid
• myxinoid
• slime eel

Hypernyms

• cyclostome

Derived terms

• black hagfish
• gulf hagfish
• hagfishery
• hagfishing
• inshore hagfish
• New Zealand hagfish
• Pacific hagfish
• southern hagfish

 

Translations

eellike fish of the family Myxinidae

• Bulgarian: прилепало n (prilepalo)
• Catalan: mixina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲鰻／盲鳗 (zh) (mángmán)

• Danish: slimål c
• Dutch: slijmprik
• Esperanto: mukofiŝo
• Finnish: limaajakala (fi), limaaja (fi), limanahkiainen (fi)
• French: myxine (fr) f
• German: Schleimaal m, Inger m
• Irish: cailleach (ga) f
• Italian: missina f
• Japanese: ヌタウナギ (nutaunagi)
• Korean: 먹장어 (meokjang'eo), 곰장어 (gomjang'eo), 꼼장어 (kkomjang'eo)
• Manx: caillagh varrey f
• Maori: tuere, tuare, napia, pia
• Navajo: łóóʼ bíígháántsiighąąʼ ádaadinígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slimål m

• Polish: śluzica f
• Portuguese: mixina f, peixe-bruxa m, feiticeira (pt) f
• Russian: микси́на (ru) f (miksína)
• Serbo-Croatian: слепуља f (sljepulja)
• Spanish: mixino m, pez-bruja m
• Swedish: pirål c
• Welsh: ellyll môr m, safngrwn m
• West Frisian: slymnjoggeneach