lancelet

1. 1.

   small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates

   Synonymsamphioxus

   Broadercephalochordate

   Part ofgenus Amphioxus

Other forms of lancelet

plural

lancelets·

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 lancelet

What does lancelet mean?

lancelet means "small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates".

How many syllables are in lancelet?

lancelet has 2 syllables: lan-celet. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /ˈlænslət/.

What is another word for lancelet?

Close synonyms include amphioxus. 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 lancelet a common word?

lancelet 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.