CHORDATE


Meaning of CHORDATE in English

/kawr"dayt/ , Zool.

adj.

1. belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.

n.

2. a chordate animal.

[ 1885-90; see CHORDATA ]

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