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Anaspida

noun

extinct order of jawless vertebrates

• Syn: ↑order Anaspida

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Agnatha, ↑superclass Agnatha

• Member Meronyms: ↑anaspid

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\\-pədə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from an- + -aspida (from Greek aspid-, aspis shield)

: a class or other division of primitive fishlike ostracoderms having a heterocercal tail and a covering of small elongated scales and known from Silurian-Devonian transition beds of Europe and America

Useful english dictionary. 2012.