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AGNATHA

English dictionary: Word overview

AGNATHA (noun)
  The noun AGNATHA has 1 sense:

1. superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms

  Familiarity information: AGNATHA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


AGNATHA (noun)


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Meaning:

Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Agnatha; superclass Agnatha

Hypernyms ("Agnatha" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Agnatha"):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

order Ostracodermi; Ostracodermi (extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)

Anaspida; order Anaspida (extinct order of jawless vertebrates)

Conodonta; Conodontophorida; order Conodonta; order Conodontophorida (extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum)

Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)

Holonyms ("Agnatha" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)


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