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Lancelet   Listen
noun
Lancelet  n.  (Zool.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.






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"Lancelet" Quotes from Famous Books



... our high faculties had been gradually developed. But it can be shewn that there is no fundamental difference of this kind. We must also admit that there is a much wider interval in mental power between one of the lowest fishes, as a lamprey or lancelet, and one of the higher apes, than between an ape and man; yet this interval is filled ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Lancelet" :   genus Amphioxus



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