English to Filipino Meaning of hagfish - hagfish

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Definitions of hagfish in English

Noun(1) 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

Examples of hagfish in English

(1) Hermaphrodites were rarely observed in a study on the Japanese hagfish .(2) It has been suggested the demand for hagfish skin has greatly depleted the hagfish populations.(3) One form is lamprey like, whereas the other is closer to the more primitive hagfish .(4) Whatever their phylogenetic position, the hagfish are still considered the most primitive vertebrate known, living or extinct.(5) Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish , the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.(6) This jawless mouth sets the lamprey and its cousin the hagfish apart from all other modern vertebrates - animals with backbones.(7) It used to be thought that hagfish were vertebrates, but in fact these ‘fish’ have no backbone at all.(8) These data from our studies suggest a seasonal reproductive cycle in the Atlantic hagfish .(9) The hagfish , together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates.(10) In addition, there is little known about how the hagfish feed, grow, or sexually mature.(11) To date, the question of luteal-like structures in lampreys and hagfish is unresolved.(12) Traditional methods of population assessment used by the fisheries industry cannot be applied to the hagfish .(13) These first vertebrates lacked jaws, like the living hagfish and lampreys.(14) They are represented now only by the lampreys, eel-like forms that are parasites on fish, and the hagfish , also eel-like but feeding on dead or dying animals.(15) For a long time, people thought of hagfish as scavengers and parasites, probably due to their habit or burrowing into dead or dying animals and eating them from the inside out. In(16) Agnathans generally have the smallest brains for their body size, with hagfishes having brains that are two to three times larger than lampreys of the same body size.

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