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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Lacking a lower jaw: agnathan fish.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. zoology Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.
  2. n. zoology A member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages; a member of the Agnatha. The group includes the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms

Etymologies

  1. From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "without") + γνάθος (gnathos, "jaw") (Wiktionary)
  2. a-1 + Greek gnathos, jaw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. jawless vertebrate
  1. jawless fish
  1. agnatha
  1. agnath

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  1. aquatic vertebrate
  1. vertebrate

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  1. ostracoderm
  2. cyclostome
  1. lamprey
  2. osteostracan
  1. slime eels
  2. cephalaspid
  1. lamprey eel
  2. lamper eel
  1. hagfish
  2. anaspid
  1. heterostracan
  2. hag
  1. conodont

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  1. gnathostome

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