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conodont vs jawless fish

jawless fish vs conodont

conodont and jawless fish both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
conodont Yes No No No
jawless fish Yes No No No
As nouns, jawless fish is a hypernym of conodont; that is, jawless fish is a word with a broader meaning than conodont:
  • conodont: small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
  • jawless fish: eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Other hypernyms of conodont include agnathan, jawless vertebrate.
conodont (noun) jawless fish (noun)
small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
Difference between conodont and jawless fish

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