Dictionary
chor•date
Pronunciation: (kôr'dāt), [key] Zool.
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adj.
belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
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n.
a chordate animal.
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