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CHORDATE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chordate family mean? 

CHORDATE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CHORDATE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. any family in the phylum Chordataplay

  Familiarity information: CHORDATE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHORDATE FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any family in the phylum Chordata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chordate family" is a kind of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chordate family"):

Amphioxidae; Branchiostomidae; family Amphioxidae; family Branchiostomidae (lancelets)

family Salpidae; Salpidae (a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea)

Doliolidae; family Doliolidae (oceanic tunicates)

Holonyms ("chordate family" is a member of...):

Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)


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