The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of various primitive, eel-shaped marine fishes of the family Myxinidae, having a jawless sucking mouth equipped with rasping teeth with which they bore into and feed on other fishes.
n. any of several primitive eellike creatures, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth; considered edible in Japan, their skin is used to make a form of leather
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. See hag, 4.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Same as hag, 3.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. 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
Word Usage
"Since the 1970s, many evolutionary biologists have considered an eel-like, deep-sea-dwelling creature called the hagfish to be the closest extant relative of a last common ancestor for all backboned creatures."