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Definition of Gnathostomata

1. Noun. Comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnathostomata

Literary usage of Gnathostomata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The Gnathostomata include the free-swimming Copepoda; they have appendages about the mouth adapted to mastication and the full number of body segments. ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The Gnathostomata may accordingly be divided into two sub-orders. SUB-ORDER 1. ... Gnathostomata in which the jaws are reduced in size and strength. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"... a sufficient ground for a very distinct separation of these forms from the rest of the vertebrates. • But the group Gnathostomata must now include the ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Gnathostomata(nath-o-sto'ma-ta),7¡.j>?. [NL., pi. of Gnathostoma, qv] l. ... [< Gnathostomata + -ous. ..."

5. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"... Gnathostomata Instead of the jaw-apparatus, which has doubtless become degenerated, and indications of which as well as of the hyoid can apparently ..."

6. Zoology for High Schools and Colleges by Alpheus Spring Packard (1881)
"\V ith the skull of the second form two jaws are developed, hence all the vertebrates above the hag and lamprey form a series (Gnathostomata ..."

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