HAG
Dictionary entry overview: What does hag mean?
• HAG (noun)
The noun HAG has 2 senses:
1. an ugly evil-looking old woman
2. 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
Familiarity information: HAG used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HAG (noun)
Meaning:
An ugly evil-looking old woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
beldam; beldame; crone; hag; witch
Hypernyms ("hag" is a kind of...):
old woman (a woman who is old)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
hagfish; slime eels; hag
Hypernyms ("hag" is a kind of...):
agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hag"):
Myxine glutinosa (typical hagfish)
eptatretus (a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus)
Myxinikela siroka (fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes)
Holonyms ("hag" is a member of...):
family Myxinidae; Myxinidae (slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes)
