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Definition of Gnathostome
1. Noun. A vertebrate animal possessing true jaws.
Definition of Gnathostome
1. Noun. (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnathostome
Literary usage of Gnathostome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"Sense organ 5 of the Cyclostome stage has divided to produce the sense organ 9,
and the sense organ complex 15 of the gnathostome stage, or the macula ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"... was developed by a transformation of the jaw apparatus from the maxillo-man-
dibular apparatus of some gnathostome ancestor, and these views, ..."
3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... and ingesting microscopic food particles, into pre-gnathostome animals with
... and to the formation of a synthetic or gnathostome type of head, ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... have always been a doubtful group, anatomy and palaeontology contributing but
imperfect evidence as to their position in the gnathostome phylum. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"No cranial nerve of any gnathostome vertebrate has retained all these components.
In the head each sensory component, as a physiological adaptation, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"No cranial nerve of any gnathostome vertebrate has retained all these components.
In the head each sensory component, as a physiological adaptation, ..."
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