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Definition of Lancelet
1. Noun. Small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates.
Definition of Lancelet
1. n. 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.
Definition of Lancelet
1. Noun. any of a group of primitive marine animals, of subphylum ''Cephalochordata'', having a notochord instead of a backbone ¹
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Definition of Lancelet
1. a small marine organism [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lancelet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancelet
Literary usage of Lancelet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"DEVELOPMENT OF lancelet. The first changes to be witnessed in the ... Segmentation of
the egg of the lancelet is on an exact parallel with that of the egg ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The lancelet is a vertebrate reduced to its very lowest terms. The essential
organs of vertebrate Ufe are there, but each one in its simplest form ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... the race odor by the eleventh and the nest odor by the twelfth. In the lancelet,
there is not much evidenci for the separate existence of a ..."
4. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Schmidt, Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1875)
"With this the lancelet becomes a vertebrate animal, and the preceding phases do
not (according to the view at one time inculcated by CE v. ..."
5. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"Main Class of the Tube-hearted, or Skull-less Animals (the lancelet)—Blood
Relationship between the Skull-less Fish and the Tunicates. ..."
6. Winners in Life's Race, Or, The Great Backboned Family by Arabella Burton Buckley (1882)
"cant animal is called the " lancelet,"* because it is shaped something like the
... The lancelet, the lowest known fish-like form. m, mouth, e, eye-spot, f, ..."
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