cephalochordate

Definitions of cephalochordate

1. noun

   fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column
   types:

   amphioxus, lancelet

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

   type of:

   chordate

   any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column