chordate

IPA: kˈɔrdeɪt

A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.

Examples of "chordate" in Sentences

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.