单词 | slime eels |
释义 | slime eels (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY slime eels USAGE EXAMPLESWe were fishing for slime eels, horrible creatures you catch in big, heavy barrels. The Guardian(May 15, 2015) n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper hag, hagfish Myxine glutinosa typical hagfish eptatretusa fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus Myxinikela sirokafossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
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