slime eels

Questions about slime eels

What does slime eels mean?

slime eels means "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".

What is another word for slime eels?

Close synonyms include hagfish, hag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slime eels a common word?

slime eels is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.