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Webster 1913 Edition


Lancelet

Lance′let

,
Noun.
[
Lance
+
-let
.]
(Zool.)
A small fishlike animal (
Amphioxus lanceolatus
), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class
Leptocardia
. See
Amphioxus
,
Leptocardia
.

Definition 2024


lancelet

lancelet

English

Noun

lancelet (plural lancelets)

  1. any of a group of primitive marine animals, of subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord instead of a backbone

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