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Meanings of slime eels in English

Catalan
mixinoïdeu
Spanish
myxini

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.

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        mixinoïdeu
        Synonyms
        Examples for "hag"
        Examples for "hag"
        1
        When? he asked, dully remembering the drunken hag he had seen-agesago.
        Laughter in the dark
        2
        You should arrange for the hag to join the Freeing this year.
        The black prism
        3
        To this moment, he hadn't yet withdrawn any of the hag's teeth.
        Servant of a dark god
        4
        The hag was standing in the kitchen door now, still grinning evilly.
        Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
        5
        The hag laid down the coins and moved laboriously to the, table.
        The Perils of Pauline
        1
        The idea suggests that body knotting is no mere hagfish party trick.
        BBC
        2
        Put simply, hagfish are like nothing else in the animal kingdom.
        BBC
        3
        Other pressures might have led hagfish to lose their backbone-like structures, says Barley.
        BBC
        4
        Today, many hagfish hang around at the bottom of the ocean.
        BBC
        5
        Similarly, hagfish slime is not necessarily all about lubrication during knotting.
        BBC
        Usage of slime eels in English
        1
        Hagfish are also known as slime eels, thought they are not eels.
        Wired
        2
        A HIGHWAY in the United States has been covered in slime eels after a five-vehicle collision.
        News.com.au
        3
        Eels, or hagfish, have a skull but no jaw or spine and they secrete slime when distressed, earning them the nickname " slime eels."
        News.com.au
        Translations for slime eels
        Spanish
        myxini