CHORDATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chordate mean? 

• CHORDATE (noun)
  The noun CHORDATE has 1 sense:

1. any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

  Familiarity information: CHORDATE used as a noun is very rare.

• CHORDATE (adjective)
  The adjective CHORDATE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

  Familiarity information: CHORDATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHORDATE (noun)

Meaning:

Any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chordate" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chordate"):

cephalochordate (fishlike animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column)

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Holonyms ("chordate" is a member of...):

Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)

• CHORDATE (adjective)

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)