chordates

noun

Meaning

A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine

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Related words

phylum(English)phylum chordata(English)cephalochordata(English)cephalochordate(English)chordata(English)metazoa(English)vertebrates(English)arthropoda(English)chordate(English)amphioxus(English)notochord(English)hagfish(English)

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