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Webster 1913 Edition

Chordata

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Chor-da′ta

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. L.

chorda

cord.]

(Zool.)

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

Definition 2024

Chordata

Chordata

Translingual

Proper noun

Chordata

Animals having a notochord at some stage of their development
1. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Deuterostomia.
2. A taxonomic phylum within the infrakingdom Deuterostomia.

Hypernyms

(phylum in infrakingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom

Hyponyms

(phylum): Cephalochordata, Myxini, Urochordata, Vertebrata - subphyla; Chordata Craniata - clade
(phylum in infrakingdom): Cephalochordata, Urochordata, Vertebrata (= Craniata) - subphyla

Translations

a taxonomic phylum, within superphylum Deuterostomia

Finnish: selkäjänteiset
French: chordés m pl (sg. chordé); cordés m pl (sg. cordé)

German: Chordatiere (de) f pl, Chordata (de) n pl
Tamil: முதுகுநாணிகள் ‎(mutukunāṇikaḷ)

References

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521