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Chordata

Syllabification: (Chor·da·ta)
Pronunciation: /kôrˈdätə, -ˈdātə/

Zoology
Definition of Chordata
  • a large phylum of animals that includes the vertebrates together with the sea squirts and lancelets. They are distinguished by the possession of a notochord at some stage during their development.

Origin:

modern Latin (plural), from Latin chorda (see chord2), on the pattern of words such as Vertebrata

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