JAWLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jawless mean? 

• JAWLESS (adjective)
  The adjective JAWLESS has 1 sense:

1. of animals having no jaw

  Familiarity information: JAWLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAWLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of animals having no jaw

Antonym:

jawed (of animals having jaws of a specified type)

 Context examples 

A grouping of jawed and jawless vertebrate animals usually having fins and a covering of scales or plates, breathing by means of gills, and living almost entirely in the water.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus)

Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)