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单词 chordata
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Chordatan.

Brit. /kɔːˈdeɪtə/, U.S. /kɔrˈdɑdɑ/, /kɔrˈdeɪdɑ/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin Etymon: Latin Chordata.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Chordata (earliest in Protochordata : see protochordate n.) < chorda chorda n. + -ata (see -ate suffix2), after Vertebrata Vertebrata n., etc.
Zoology.
With plural (or occasionally singular) agreement: a large phylum of animals comprising the vertebrates together with the lancelets and (usually) the sea squirts, characterized by having a more or less well-developed notochord at some stage in their lives. Also with plural agreement (also in form chordata): animals of this group (collectively or individually); chordates.The subphyla of the Chordata are now sometimes elevated to phyla, with the vertebrates being placed separately in the phylum Craniata.
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Chordata1880
1880 F. M. Balfour Treat. Compar. Embryol. I. 4 The larva of the Tunicata has the characters of a simple type of the Chordata.
1906 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol. II. 484 While perhaps they should remain under the broad mantle of the term Chordata, they must apparently be removed from the true vertebrates to a new class.
1950 J. Z. Young Life of Vertebr. ii. 24 The Chordata occupy a greater variety of habitats..than any other group.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xiv. 213 In the chordata the nervous system is a tubular structure that is dorsal to the notochord and the digestive tract.
1977 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 36 137/2 The reader either already knows or does not need to know that..vertebrate animals constitute a subphylum of the Chordata.
2004 New Scientist 11 Sept. 12/4 The genus Homo belongs to the family Hominidae, which is part of the order Primates, which in turn belongs to the class Mammalia, which is a member of the phylum Chordata.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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