From hag + fish.
A hagfish
hagfish (countable and uncountable, plural hagfish or hagfishes)
- Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.
eellike fish of the family Myxinidae
- Arabic: جُرَيْث m (jurayṯ)
- Bulgarian: прилепало n (prilepalo)
- Catalan: mixina f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 盲鰻／盲鳗 (zh) (mángmán)
- Danish: slimål c
- Dutch: slijmprik (nl)
- Esperanto: mukofiŝo
- Finnish: limaajakala (fi), limaaja (fi), limanahkiainen (fi)
- French: myxine (fr) f
- German: Schleimaal m, Inger m
- Irish: cailleach (ga) f
- Italian: missina f
- Japanese: ヌタウナギ (nutaunagi)
- Korean: 먹장어 (meokjang'eo), 곰장어 (gomjang'eo), 꼼장어 (kkomjang'eo)
- Manx: caillagh varrey f
- Maori: tuere, tuare, napia, pia
- Navajo: łóóʼ bíígháántsiighąąʼ ádaadinígíí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: slimål m
- Polish: śluzica f
- Portuguese: mixina f, peixe-bruxa m, feiticeira (pt) f
- Russian: микси́на (ru) f (miksína)
- Serbo-Croatian: слепуља f (sljepulja)
- Spanish: mixino m, pez-bruja m
- Swedish: pirål c
- Welsh: ellyll môr m, safngrwn m
- West Frisian: slymnjoggeneach
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