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Definition of Jawless
1. Adjective. Of animals having no jaw.
Definition of Jawless
1. Adjective. Lacking a jaw. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jawless
1. having no jaw (a bony structure bordering the mouth) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jawless
Literary usage of Jawless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... has come about is the recognition that Fishes are not by any means the lowest
Vertebrates. Below the level of Fishes, there are the jawless lampreys ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The jawed and jawless leeches show considerable differences in the ... In the
jawless leeches a sharp conical process arising from the pharynx serves for ..."
3. Geology of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Simple Language by John Walter Gregory (1915)
"The most remarkable of the primitive fish were the armoured limbless, jawless
fish known from their platy covering case as the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The only possible excuse is that the creature is seductive, full of suggestions
as to the origin of the gnathostomes, and the mode of evolution of jawless ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"While the vacant throne of Italy was abandoned to jawless Barl>arians,(112) the
election of a new colleague was seriously agitated in the council of Leo. ..."
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