Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of hagfish

irregular plural

The plural of hagfish is hagfish or hagfishes.

Forms of hagfish

Singularhagfish /ˈhæɡˌfɪʃ/
Pluralhagfish /ˈhæɡˌfɪʃ/
hagfishes
Countablecountable and uncountable

Hagfishes in a sentence

  • Mouth is without jaws (agnathic) in lampreys and hagfishes and bounded by jaws (gnathic) in all other vertebrates.2004, V. B. Rastogi, Modern Biology, seventh edition, Pitambar, →ISBN, page II-61. From the entry agnathic

Meaning of hagfish

  1. noun 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.

Full definition of hagfish

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of hagfish

What is the plural of hagfish?
The plural of hagfish is hagfish or hagfishes.
Is hagfish countable?
Hagfish is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hagfish (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Plural of hagfish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/hagfish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.