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hag fish

hag fish is the alternative form of hagfish.

Meaning of hagfish

Noun

hagfish (countable and uncountable, plural hagfish or hagfishes)

  1. Any of the primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.

Forms of hag fish

pluralhag fish
pluralhag fishes

Questions about hag fish

What is hag fish the alternative form of?
Hag fish is the alternative form of hagfish.

Words near hag fish in the dictionary

  1. hafu
  2. hafus
  3. hag
  4. hag do
  5. hag dos
  6. hag fish
  7. hag fishes
  8. hag moth
  9. hag moths
  10. hag track
  11. hag tracks

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