Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous animals of the group Gnathostomata, consisting of all vertebrates with jaws and including the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes except for lampreys and hagfishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the Gnathostomata, or vertebrates having true jaws.
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- noun zoology Any
vertebrate withjaws , includingamphibians ,reptiles ,mammals , and most modernfish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Gnathostomata, taxon name : Greek gnathos, jaw; see genu- in Indo-European roots + Greek stoma, stomat-, mouth.]
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gnatho- + -stome
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Examples
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Certainly it does not acheive a result more consonant with the accepted gnathostome phylogeny.
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