slime eels

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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 bodieshagfish, hagagnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate - eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct formsfamily Myxinidae, Myxinidae - slime-producing marine animals: hagfishesMyxine glutinosa - typical hagfisheptatretus - a fossil hagfish of the genus EptatretusMyxinikela siroka - fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes