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lance•let



Pronunciation: (lans'lit, läns'-), [key]
n.
any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates. Also called amphioxus.

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