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amphioxus Synonyms

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• noun (Context 1)

A small, translucent, fish-like marine chordate of the subphylum Cephalochordata, notable for retaining a notochord throughout its life and lacking a true head or brain.

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"In evolutionary biology, the lancelet is extensively studied to understand the origins of vertebrate anatomy because of its primitive chordate features."

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