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PHYLUM
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Irregular inflected form: phyla
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("phylum" is a kind of...):
taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)
Meronyms (members of "phylum"):
subphylum ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class)
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phylum"):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Echinodermata; phylum Echinodermata (radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers)
phylum Sipuncula; Sipuncula (peanut worms)
Brachiopoda; phylum Brachiopoda (marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks)
Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora (tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta)
Endoprocta; Entoprocta; phylum Entoprocta (sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa)
Ectoprocta; phylum Ectoprocta (coextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa)
Bryozoa; phylum Bryozoa; polyzoa (marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids)
Phoronida; Phoronidea; phylum Phoronida (small phylum of wormlike marine animals)
Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)
Annelida; phylum Annelida (segmented worms: earthworms; lugworms; leeches)
Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)
phylum Rotifera; Rotifera (a phylum including: rotifers)
phylum Pogonophora; Pogonophora (beard worms)
Nemertea; Nemertina; phylum Nemertea; phylum Nemertina (proboscis worms)
phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Chaetognatha; phylum Chaetognatha (arrowworms: a group of small active transparent marine worms)
Acanthocephala; phylum Acanthocephala (phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms)
Ctenophora; phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata)
Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)
phylum Porifera; Porifera (coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges)
Pentastomida; subphylum Pentastomida (tongue worms)
Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)
Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)
subphylum Tunicata; subphylum Urochorda; subphylum Urochordata; Tunicata; Urochorda; Urochordata (tunicates)
Cephalochordata; subphylum Cephalochordata (lancelets)
Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)
Cryptophyta; phylum Cryptophyta (a phylum in the kingdom Protoctista)
phylum Protozoa; Protozoa (in some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom; comprises flagellates; ciliates; sporozoans; amoebas; foraminifers)
phylum Pyrrophyta; Pyrrophyta (a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds)
Holonyms ("phylum" is a member of...):
kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("phylum" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Context examples:
A species of anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Actinobacillus equuli, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of aerobic or anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria.
(Aeromonas hydrophila, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of aerobic, Gram negative bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Alcaligenaceae.
(Achromobacter, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes.
(Abiotrophia defectiva, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, curved rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria.
(Mobiluncus curtisii, NCI Thesaurus)
A subspecies of anaerobic, Gram positive, curved rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria and the species Mobiluncus curtisii.
(Mobiluncus curtisii subsp holmesii, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria.
(Mobiluncus mulieris, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes.
(Mitsuokella multacida, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Veillonellaceae.
(Mitsuokella, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of obligately aerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Actinobacteria.
(Micrococcus luteus, NCI Thesaurus)
