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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)
- The lancelet, particularly of the genus Branchiostoma