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ˈhagfish, hag-fish
[f. hag n.1 + fish n.1]
= hag n.1 5.
1611Cotgr., Pirot, the Pirot, or Hag-fish; a kind of long shell-fish. 1884Longm. Mag. Mar. 525 The majority of the fish caught are totally destroyed by hag-fish. 1931J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes iii. 41 The related Hagfish (Myxine) possesses still more singular habits, and bores right into the fishes it attacks. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 291 Aqua-lung diving is beginning to provide exact data about the natural habitats of such animals, for example, the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa. 1968Times 19 Dec. 4/8 Lampreys, like hagfish, are surviving members of the jawless fishes, the first group of vertebrates to evolve. |