cephalochordate

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata, including the lancelets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to these creatures.

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