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ANASPID
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I. (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:
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)