different between agnath vs agnate

English

Etymology

From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “without”) + ?????? (gnáthos, “jaw”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?g?n?th, IPA^(key): /?æ?.n??/

Noun

agnath (plural agnaths)

1. (zoology) An agnathan.
   • 1979, Stephen C. Wood, Evolution of Respiratory Processes, Marcel Dekker, ?ISBN, page 218:

     Evolution of vertebrates was accompanied by a gradual increase in oxygen availability, from the irrespirable atmosphere of the Precambrian to a PO? at 7 mmHg with the first vertebrates (agnaths), to the present sea level PO? value of 160 mmHg with the first reptiles.

   • 1996, George Christopher Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection, Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 51:

     The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths, presumably because they were more effective fishes.

   • 2002, Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 113:

     Thus, although tunicates are presumably intermediate between flatworms and agnaths, the larval tunicate more closely resembles the flatworm and adult agnath.

Anagrams

• ghanta

German

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “without”) + ?????? (gnáthos, “jaw”)

Adjective

agnath (not comparable)

1. (zoology) jawless
   • 1895, H. Henking, “Ueber die Ernährung von Glandina algira L.”, Zoologische Jahrbücher, volume 8, page 87:

     Da die Testacelliden agnath sind, so vermögen sie sich ihrer Beute nur mit Hülfe der Radula zu bemächtigen, indem diese etwas vorgestülpt wird, um ein Eingreifen der Radula-Zähne zu ermöglichen.

   • 1906, “Pisces für 1902”, Archiv für Naturgeschichte, volume 2, issue 1, page 15

     Erörterung der Frage, ob die Ostracodermen agnath oder gnathostom sind.

   • 2004, Rüdiger Wehner and Walter Gehring, Zoologie, twenty-fourth edition, Thieme, ?ISBN, page 809:

     Hypothetisches Ausgangsstadium (agnathes Wirbeltier) mit gleichförmigen Branchialbögen (Kieferbögen).

Declension

Synonyms

• kieferlos

English

Etymology

from Latin agn?tus (“paternal kinsman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?ne?t/

Noun

agnate (plural agnates)

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

   A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
2. Any paternal male relative.

Antonyms

• enate

Translations

Adjective

agnate (comparative more agnate, superlative most agnate)

1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
2. allied; akin

   • Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.

3. (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.

Synonyms

• agnatic, patrilineal

Derived terms

• agnatic
• agnation

Translations

Anagrams

• Gaetan, Teagan, negata

Latin

Noun

agn?te

1. vocative singular of agn?tus