Library / English Dictionary

CHORDATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

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

cephalochordate (fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column)

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

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

Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)

Derivation:

chordate (of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)

Derivation:

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

Credits