jawless fish

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Definitions of jawless fish words

noun jawless fish cyclostome. 1
noun jawless fish any of a class (Agnatha) of fishes with a cartilaginous skeleton, an eel-like body, and a circular, sucking mouth lacking jaws, consisting of the lampreys and hagfishes 0

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1965-70; jaw1 + -less

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