Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A primary division or subkingdom of the animal kingdom, containing all animals which have or have had a notochord, thus including the true vertebrates (also called Craniota), the leptocardians, or Cephalochorda, and the tunicates, or Urochorda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
WordNet 3.0
- n. comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord
Examples
“As chordata is predated by bilateria, that would indicate that the evolutionary process is ongoing, not 'instantaneous'.”
“Upwards from it we have vertical lines going through eukarya (1), metazoa (2), and finally chordata (3).”
“In this picture chordata are still traceable to a unique branch originating at the ground level (0).”
“The only point that I was trying to make was that during the Cambrian âwe see the origin of the vast majority the basic phyla that are in existence today. â For example we we along with other vertebrates belong to the phyla chordata.”
“All are members of the chordata, the deuterostomes with notochords.”
“The brain stem is considered to be the oldest part of our brain, oldest in that it is found even in the simplest of animals in our phylum, the chordata.”
“Hence we may conclude, according to the laws of the theory of descent, that all these chordonia or chordata (tunicates and vertebrates) descend from an ancient common ancestral form, which we may call Chordaea.”
“What is the major evolutionary advancement of the phylum chordata?”
“We were well received as we hammered out about 9 songs from the chordata album.”
“The Democratic party has clearly resigned its membership in phylum chordata; how soon will they depart the community of multicellular organisms?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chordata’.
-
wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
-
arynzmuse's Words
cacaphony, jealously, aerie, substrate, sedimentology, planetarium, aqueous, sororal, feminine, quidditch, muggle, uniformitarianism and 53 more...
-
words i love
caries, antisense, apmonia, isonomy, progeny, stalk, proliferation, convoluted, har-megiddon, eschatology, chordata, cephalic and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chordata.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.