CONODONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conodont mean? 

• CONODONT (noun)
  The noun CONODONT has 2 senses:

1. the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta

2. small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes

  Familiarity information: CONODONT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONODONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("conodont" is a kind of...):

tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("conodont" is a kind of...):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

Holonyms ("conodont" is a member of...):

Conodonta; Conodontophorida; order Conodonta; order Conodontophorida (extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum)