noun
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
• Hypernyms: ↑jawless vertebrate, ↑jawless fish, ↑agnathan
• Hyponyms: ↑Myxine glutinosa, ↑eptatretus, ↑Myxinikela siroka
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myxinidae, ↑family Myxinidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.