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lancelet

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lance=let

CIDE DICTIONARY

lanceletn. [Lance + -let.].
     A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lancelet, n. any small non-vertebrate fishlike chordate of the family Branchiostomidae, that burrows in sand.

Etymology
LANCE n. + -LET, with ref. to its thin form

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