Definitions for lancelets

lancelets lance·let

Spelling: [lans-lit, lahns-]
IPA: /ˈlæns lɪt, ˈlɑns-/

Lancelets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in lancelets (aceellnst).

Definitions for lancelets

noun

  1. any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates.

Origin of lancelets

First recorded in 1565-75; lance2 + -let

Examples for lancelets

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.

There is a huge gap between the lancelet and the true vertebrates.

By "launces" the writer meant what we should now call the lancelet.

From the lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet, we passed on to the Lamprey, and from that to the true fishes.

It is still more remarkable than the amphioxus or lancelet, which has been long known.

The lowest of the Vertebrata, the lancelet (see p. 140), has a larva of this kind.

This gap was filled some years ago by the discovery of the lancelet—Amphioxus—and the young of the sea-squirt—Ascidia.

The development of the lancelet presents us with an instance of the two-layered larva, or Gastrula.

The lancelet also differs from the true vertebrates, in that it has no limbs.

Word Value for lancelets
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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