Noun
- 1. conodont, tooth
- usage: the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
- 2. conodont, jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan
- usage: small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
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