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hagfish vs agnathan

agnathan vs hagfish

hagfish and agnathan both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
hagfish Yes No No No
agnathan Yes No No No
As nouns, agnathan is a hypernym of hagfish; that is, agnathan is a word with a broader meaning than hagfish:
  • hagfish: 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
  • agnathan: eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Other hypernyms of hagfish include jawless fish, jawless vertebrate.
hagfish (noun) agnathan (noun)
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 eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Difference between hagfish and agnathan

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