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MYXINE GLUTINOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myxine glutinosa mean? 

MYXINE GLUTINOSA (noun)
  The noun MYXINE GLUTINOSA has 1 sense:

1. typical hagfishplay

  Familiarity information: MYXINE GLUTINOSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MYXINE GLUTINOSA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Typical hagfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Myxine glutinosa" 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 ("Myxine glutinosa" is a member of...):

genus Myxine; Myxine (type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes))


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