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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈæɡ.nə.θən/Part of speech nounSorted aaaghnntStarts with AEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms

Word origin

From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”).

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  • Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.
  • The hagfish is an agnathan, a modern representative of the earliest evolved group of vertebrates, the ostracoderms or jawless fishes, which arose prior to the ancient placoderms (3).

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