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FAMILY MYXINIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
Synonyms:
family Myxinidae; Myxinidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Myxinidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Myxinidae"):
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)
genus Myxine; Myxine (type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes))
genus Eptatretus (a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae)
genus Myxinikela; Myxinikela (fossil hagfishes)
Holonyms ("family Myxinidae" is a member of...):
Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)
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