Agnath vs Agnate - What's the difference?
agnath | agnate |
(zoology) An agnathan.
* 1979 , Stephen C. Wood, Evolution of Respiratory Processes , Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0-8247-6793-4, page 218:
* 1996 , George Christopher Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02615-7, page 51:
* 2002 , Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513513-X, page 113:
A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
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Any paternal male relative.
Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
allied; akin
* Landor
(label) Having a similar semantic meaning.
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As nouns the difference between agnath and agnate
is that agnath is (zoology) an agnathan while agnate is a relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.As an adjective agnate is
related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.agnath
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths , presumably because they were more effective fishes.
- Thus, although tunicates are presumably intermediate between flatworms and agnaths', the larval tunicate more closely resembles the flatworm and adult ' agnath .
agnate
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
Antonyms
* enateAdjective
(en adjective)- Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.