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GNATHOSTOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gnathostome" is a kind of...):
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Holonyms ("gnathostome" is a member of...):
Gnathostomata; superclass Gnathostomata (comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws)