Definition: The word "anticodon" means "an ant." It was a term used in ancient Hebrew to describe the part of an animal's body that functions as a head, which is now often associated with a skull or brain. Definition: - Anticodon refers to an area inside a fish (like a snail) where the brain and spinal cord are fused together. This allows for the integration of sensory and motor signals into a single system. It's often described as "the brain in a shell." - In the context of linguistics, it's also used to describe the part of a sentence that precedes an exclamation mark or question mark.