jawless fish

Questions about jawless fish

What does jawless fish mean?

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

What is another word for jawless fish?

Close synonyms include jawless vertebrate, agnathan. 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 jawless fish a common word?

jawless fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.