gnathostome

English Thesaurus

1. a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	craniate, vertebrate,
definition	:	animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	gnathostomata, superclass gnathostomata,
definition	:	comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws (noun.animal)