ANASPIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anaspida mean? 

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

1. extinct order of jawless vertebrates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANASPIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct order of jawless vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anaspida; order Anaspida

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Anaspida"):

anaspid (extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian)

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

Agnatha; superclass Agnatha (superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms)