agnathan

Other forms of agnathan

plural

agnathans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agnathan

What does agnathan mean?

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

How many syllables are in agnathan?

agnathan has 3 syllables: ag-na-than. The stress falls on "ag".

What is another word for agnathan?

Close synonyms include jawless vertebrate, jawless fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agnathan a common word?

agnathan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.