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lancelet

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Noun

HYPHEN

lance=let

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lancelet has 1 sense

lancelet(n = noun.animal) amphioxus - small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates; Array

is a kind of cephalochordate

is a member of genus amphioxus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lancelet, n. [Lance + -let.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

lancelet, n. any small non-vertebrate fishlike chordate of the family Branchiostomidae, that burrows in sand.

Etymology

LANCE n. + -LET, with ref. to its thin form

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