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Webster 1913 Edition


Amphioxus


Amˊphi-ox′us

,
Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἀμφί
+ [GREEK] sharp.]
(Zool.)
A fishlike creature (
Amphioxus lanceolatus
), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; – also called the
lancelet
. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group
Acrania
,
Leptocardia
, etc.

Definition 2024


amphioxus

amphioxus

See also: Amphioxus

English

Noun

amphioxus (plural amphioxi or amphioxuses)

  1. The lancelet, particularly of the genus Branchiostoma