chordate
IPA: kˈɔrdeɪt
noun
- A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.
adjective
- Of such animals.
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Examples of "chordate" in Sentences
- Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny.
- Echinoderm embryology and the origin of chordates.
- And, there was no first human, no first chordate, etc.
- Basal chordate, and much more fish like than the tunicates.
- The invertebrate chordate classes are from fishes of the world.
- Haikouella lanceolata is described to be the earliest craniate like chordate.
- Some paleontologists regard it as an early chordate allied with Pikaia et al.
- Mammals are another member of the chordate phylum in that they have backbones.
- In the early embryonic stage it looks like the hollow nerve cord of chordates.
- It's just one of the many peculiarities of being a chordate on Sol's 3rd rock.
- Amphioxus is a primitive chordate, more primitive than lampreys, that clot their haemolymph.
- And yes the point is the soldier is part of the Army, Corps, Division, etc just as a human is an animal, chordate, etc.
- A data dump now about problems with metazoan (or chordate or mammalian) phylogeny would be getting ahead of the discussion.
- In contrast, a region deep in the brain associated with reward processing, attention and motor movements - the chordate nucleus - was enlarged in subjects who were addicted to the drug.
- Most members of the chordate phylum, those in the subphylum Vertebrata, replace the notochord with vertebrae (the backbone) later in development to support the pelvic and pectoral girdles (to which the front and hind limbs are attached) and to protect the spinal cord.
- The change in the albedo of the world as dark plants spread and white clouds rained themselves away brought more and more habitats into use, and before long the chordate fauna of Earth was once again upon a pristine world, humanless and safer here on Garden than for the last ten thousand years on its world of origin.
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