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PHYLUM CHORDATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phylum Chordata mean? 

PHYLUM CHORDATA (noun)
  The noun PHYLUM CHORDATA has 1 sense:

1. comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochordplay

  Familiarity information: PHYLUM CHORDATA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHYLUM CHORDATA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chordata; phylum Chordata

Hypernyms ("phylum Chordata" is a kind of...):

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "phylum Chordata"):

chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)

chordate family (any family in the phylum Chordata)

chordate genus (any genus in the phylum Chordata)

Cephalochordata; subphylum Cephalochordata (lancelets)

subphylum Tunicata; subphylum Urochorda; subphylum Urochordata; Tunicata; Urochorda; Urochordata (tunicates)

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

Holonyms ("phylum Chordata" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)


 Context examples 


Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)



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