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Fishlike vs Cephalochordate - What's the difference?

fishlike | cephalochordate |

As adjectives the difference between fishlike and cephalochordate

is that fishlike is having some characteristics of a fish while cephalochordate is of or pertaining to these creatures.

As a noun cephalochordate is

any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum cephalochordata , including the lancets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the urochordata.

fishlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having some characteristics of a fish.
  • Similar to that of a fish; as, fishlike scales, fishlike eyes

    • See also

    * ichthyic * piscine

    Related terms

    * fishy

    cephalochordate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata , including the lancets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to these creatures.