Anaspid
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
An extinct small freshwater jawless fish, typically armoured and possessing a heterocercal tail, known from Silurian and Devonian fossil deposits.
“Palaeontologists identified the fossil as an anaspid from the late Silurian period.”
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an·as·pid
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Ends in SID and contains A, A, I as vowels, similar to ANAPSID but with a different letter order
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