Usually means: Primitive chordates resembling small fish.
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  1. cephalochordate: Merriam-Webster
  2. cephalochordate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cephalochordate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cephalochordate: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. cephalochordate: Wiktionary
  7. cephalochordate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. cephalochordate: Dictionary.com
  10. Cephalochordate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. cephalochordate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cephalochordate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cephalochordate)

noun:  Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata, including the lancelets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata
adjective:  Of or pertaining to these creatures.

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