ANASPID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anaspid mean? 

• ANASPID (noun)
  The noun ANASPID has 1 sense:

1. extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian

  Familiarity information: ANASPID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANASPID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("anaspid" 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 ("anaspid" is a member of...):

Anaspida; order Anaspida (extinct order of jawless vertebrates)