Found 2 items, similar to lancelet.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lancelet
lancelet
n : small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal;
primitive forerunner of the vertebrates [syn:
amphioxus]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: lancelet
Amphioxus
\Am`phi*ox"us\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? sharp.]
(Zo["o]l.)
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, vertebr[ae], nor red blood. It forms
the type of the group
Acrania,
Leptocardia, etc.
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