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 Translation for 'hagfish' from English to French
NOUN   a hagfish | hagfish / hagfishes
SYNO hag | hagfish | slime eels
ichtyo.T
myxine {f}
hagfish
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Translation for 'hagfish' from English to French

hagfish
myxine {f}ichtyo.T
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Usage Examples English
  • The hagfish circulatory system has been of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists and present day readers of physiology.
  • The slime glands along the body of the hagfish secrete enormous amounts of mucus when it is provoked or stressed.
  • "Neomyxine caesiovitta", the blueband hagfish, is a species of hagfish endemic to New Zealand.
  • Though humans as well as most other vertebrates exhibit three semicircular canals in their vestibular systems, Lampreys and Hagfish are vertebrates that deviate from this trend.
  • "Eptatretus deani", the black hagfish, is a species of hagfish.

  • "Myxine glutinosa", known as the Atlantic hagfish in North America, and often simply as the hagfish in Europe, is a species of jawless fish of the genus "Myxine".
  • As with all hagfish, the inshore hagfish produces slime when agitated. This is obtained by placing a live inshore hagfish into a container and knocking the container with a stick.
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