| CORDATE | • cordate n. (Philosophy) Any animal with a heart. • cordate n. (Archaeology) A heart-shaped hand axe. • cordate n. Misspelling of chordate. |
| CHORDATE | • chordate n. A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development;… • chordate adj. Of such animals. • CHORDATE n. an animal having a backbone. |
| CHORDATES | • chordates n. Plural of chordate. • CHORDATE n. an animal having a backbone. |
| CORDATELY | • cordately adv. In a cordate form. • CORDATE adv. heart-shaped. |
| OBCORDATE | • obcordate adj. (Botany, of a leaf) Of a reversed cordate shape; heart-shaped but attached to the stalk by the pointed end. • OBCORDATE adj. of e.g. a leaf, inversely heart-shaped and attached by the point. |
| SUBCORDATE | • subcordate adj. Somewhat cordate; approaching a heart shape. • SUBCORDATE adj. somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape. |
| UROCHORDATE | • urochordate n. (Zoology) Any marine invertebrate of the subphylum Urochordata; the sea squirts. • UROCHORDATE n. a member of the Urochordata, tunicates. |
| HEMICHORDATE | • hemichordate n. (Biology) Any of many marine worms, of the phylum Hemichordata, that have a primitive notochord. • hemichordate adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of these animals. • HEMICHORDATE n. a kind of marine worm. |
| UROCHORDATES | • urochordates n. Plural of urochordate. • UROCHORDATE n. a member of the Urochordata, tunicates. |
| HEMICHORDATES | • hemichordates n. Plural of hemichordate. • HEMICHORDATE n. a kind of marine worm. |
| PROTOCHORDATE | • protochordate n. Any chordate of the phyla Hemichordata, Urochordata or Cephalochordata. • PROTOCHORDATE n. a member of the Protochordata. |
| PROTOCHORDATES | • protochordates n. Plural of protochordate. • PROTOCHORDATE n. a member of the Protochordata. |
| CEPHALOCHORDATE | • cephalochordate n. Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata, including the lancelets… • cephalochordate adj. Of or pertaining to these creatures. • CEPHALOCHORDATE n. any of a number of chordate fishlike animals (including the lancelets and amphioxus), having a persisting notochord projecting beyond the nerve cord to the end of the snout. |