Lancelet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small, flattened marine organisms of the subphylum Cephalochordata, structurally similar to the vertebrates but having a notochord rather than a true vertebral column. Also called amphioxus.
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  • n. any of a group of primitive marine animals, of subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord instead of a backbone
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See amphioxus, leptocardia.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A lance.
  • n. The sand-lance, amphioxns, or branchiostome, a skull-less fish-like vertebrate, representing a genus Branchiostoma or Ámphioxus, a family Branchiostomidæ or Á mphioxidæ, an order Pharyngobranchii, a class Leptocardii, and a ‘branch’ of vertebrates lately named Cephalochorda. See these names, and Acrania.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cephalochordate   
    Variant
    amphioxus    leptocardia   
     
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