Lancelet is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 191 anagrams from letters in lancelet (aceellnt).
First recorded in 1565-75; lance2 + -let
By "launces" the writer meant what we should now call the lancelet.
The development of the lancelet presents us with an instance of the two-layered larva, or Gastrula.
The human heart may present in degenerates all types from the pulsating vessel found in the lancelet up to that of the mammal.
The liver in the lancelet is a long diverticulum of the intestine.
From the lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet, we passed on to the Lamprey, and from that to the true fishes.
The lancelet also differs from the true vertebrates, in that it has no limbs.
It is still more remarkable than the amphioxus or lancelet, which has been long known.
This gap was filled some years ago by the discovery of the lancelet—Amphioxus—and the young of the sea-squirt—Ascidia.
There is a huge gap between the lancelet and the true vertebrates.
The lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet (see p. 140), has a larva of this kind.
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