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GNATHOSTOME

Dictionary entry overview: What does gnathostome mean?

• GNATHOSTOME (noun)
The noun GNATHOSTOME has 1 sense:

1. a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws

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

Dictionary entry details

• GNATHOSTOME (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A vertebrate animal possessing true jaws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

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

Gnathostomata; superclass Gnathostomata (comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws)

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