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EPTATRETUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eptatretus mean?
• EPTATRETUS (noun)
The noun EPTATRETUS has 1 sense:
1. a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Familiarity information: EPTATRETUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("eptatretus" is a kind of...):
hag; hagfish; slime eels (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)
Holonyms ("eptatretus" is a member of...):
genus Eptatretus (a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae)
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