单词 | amphioxus |
释义 | Amphioxusn. Zool. A genus of fishes, consisting of a single species, called also the Lancelet, which is placed at the very bottom of the series, and has even been denied to be a vertebrate animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > chordates > [noun] > amphioxus or lancelet Amphioxus1836 lancelet1836 cephalochordate1904 1836 Yarrell in Penny Cycl. 1st Supp. 233/1 The Lancelet, Amphioxus lanceolatus. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool. §585 The most imperfectly formed of all Fish is, probably, the Amphioxus or Lancelet. 1881 Athenæum 15 Jan. 98/2 We cannot regard Amphioxus as a fish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < n.1836 |
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