Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gnathostoma

Gnathostoma , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek gna`qos the jaw + {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, the mouth.]

(Zoology) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.