Definitions for jawless fish

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

jaw′less fish`(n.)

  1. Category: Ichthyology

    Ref: Also called cyclostome. 3

  2. Category: Paleontology

    Ref: ostracoderm.

Origin of jawless fish:

1965–70

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan(noun)

    eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms


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