MYXINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myxinidae mean? 

• MYXINIDAE (noun)
  The noun MYXINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes

  Familiarity information: MYXINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYXINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Myxinidae; Myxinidae

Hypernyms ("Myxinidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Myxinidae"):

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)

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

genus Eptatretus (a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae)

genus Myxinikela; Myxinikela (fossil hagfishes)

Holonyms ("Myxinidae" is a member of...):

Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)