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CHORDATE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chordate family mean?
• CHORDATE FAMILY (noun)
The noun CHORDATE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. any family in the phylum Chordata
Familiarity information: CHORDATE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any family in the phylum Chordata
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("chordate family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chordate family"):
Amphioxidae; Branchiostomidae; family Amphioxidae; family Branchiostomidae (lancelets)
family Salpidae; Salpidae (a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea)
Doliolidae; family Doliolidae (oceanic tunicates)
Holonyms ("chordate family" is a member of...):
Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)
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