Dictionary
hem•i•chor•date
Pronunciation: (hem"i-kôr'dāt), [key] Zool.
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adj.
belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
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n.
a hemichordate animal, having a vertebratelike hollow nerve cord and an echinodermlike larval stage.
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