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Definition of Chordates
1. chordate [n] - See also: chordate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chordates
Literary usage of Chordates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The Early Development of chordates in the Light of the Embryology of Ascid- ians: EG
... In other chordates the axial relations of the egg and larva are not ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"Possibly these pre-Silurian chordates may have traced back their origin tn the
stem of the echinoderms, or they may have been ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Among chordates this ectodermal invagination forms only the mouth cavity, the
oesophagus being derived from the endoderm. In all Cnidaria, Ctenophora and ..."
4. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"Worm-like chordates of somewhat doubtful systematic position. ... Fish-like
chordates with a permanent note- chord composed of vacuolated cells. Amphioxus. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... common in many and widely separate lines, occur also in this phylum of lowly
chordates and whether mottled colors had already been evolved. ..."
6. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The vertebrates resemble the other chordates in their metamerism and bilateral
symmetry ... They differ from other chordates and resemble one another in the ..."
7. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"On the whole, however, there seems to be sufficient evidence for the view that,
if not the existing representatives of ancestral chordates, they are at ..."
8. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Time of Origin The chordates are a very ancient race, ... Place of Origin All of
the most primitive chordates existing to-day—tunicates, Amphioxus, etc. ..."
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