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Jawless Fish

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Noun

1. agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jawless Fish

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any of a class (Agnatha) of fishes with a cartilaginous skeleton, an eel-like body, and a circular, sucking mouth lacking jaws, consisting of the lampreys and hagfishes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jawless Fish

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n.
Any of various elongated marine and freshwater fishes lacking jaws and paired appendages, sometimes thought to constitute the taxon Agnatha. The only extant jawless fishes are the hagfishes and the lampreys.

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