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Noun: jawless fish
  1. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
    "Lampreys are modern examples of jawless fish";
    - jawless vertebrate, agnathan

Derived forms: jawless fish

Type of: aquatic vertebrate

Part of: Agnatha, superclass Agnatha

Encyclopedia: Jawless fish