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Primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
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lancelet
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Wiktionary
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n. any of a group of primitive marine animals, of subphylum ''Cephalochordata'', having a notochord instead of a backbone
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Amphioxus \Am`phi*ox"us\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? sharp.] (Zo["o]l.) A fishlike creature ( Amphioxus lanceolatus ), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet . Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and ...
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n. small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates [syn: amphioxus ]
Wikipedia
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The lancelets (from "lancet") — also known as amphioxi (singular, amphioxus ) — comprise some 32 species of fish-like marine chordates in the order Amphioxiformes , with a global distribution in shallow temperate (as far north as Scotland ) and tropical ...
Usage examples of lancelet.
You will sit with us at the high table, Lancelet, and tell us all that has befallen you since you left my court.
No doubt Morgaine would have counselled her so, that she should go with Lancelet to the fires .
And now the dream haunted her while she sat working at the altar cloth she was making for the church, haunted her so deeply that it seemed wicked to sit working a cross in gold thread while she thought of Lancelet.
Well, done is done, and now I must ready myself to hear that Arthur is dead, I must think what I will do when Accolon returns -Gwenhwyfar shall go into a nunnery, or if she wishes to go beyond the seas to Less Britain with Lancelet, I will not stop them .
Had she borne such a child to Lancelet, then could that child have been fostered here in Avalon and reared to become one of the greatest of the Druids.
I wondered,” he said, “but all I heard of Lancelet was that it might be that he had fathered a son on the Queen and the child was spirited away somewhere to be fostered by that kinswoman of hers whom they married off to Lancelet .
She saw the pale silvery nose, the long mane like linen floss-a big horse, tall as Lancelet himself across the shoulders.
And Queen Gwenhwyfar has had to adopt sir Galahad there, who's the son of Lancelet and of her own cousin Elaine, for Arthur's heir!