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EPTATRETUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
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Hypernyms ("eptatretus" is a kind of...):
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)
Holonyms ("eptatretus" is a member of...):
genus Eptatretus (a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae)