CEPHALOCHORDATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cephalochordate mean? 

• CEPHALOCHORDATE (noun)
  The noun CEPHALOCHORDATE has 1 sense:

1. fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column

  Familiarity information: CEPHALOCHORDATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALOCHORDATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cephalochordate" is a kind of...):

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

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

amphioxus; lancelet (small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates)

Holonyms ("cephalochordate" is a member of...):

Cephalochordata; subphylum Cephalochordata (lancelets)