CHORDATE GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chordate genus mean? 

• CHORDATE GENUS (noun)
  The noun CHORDATE GENUS has 1 sense:

1. any genus in the phylum Chordata

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHORDATE GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any genus in the phylum Chordata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

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

genus Amphioxus (type genus of the Amphioxidae)

genus Salpa (type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae)

genus Doliolum (type genus of the Doliolidae)

genus Appendicularia (a genus of chordates in the class Larvacea)

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

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