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phylum::noun | Spocien Dictionary

phylum
noun
/'faɪləm/
(biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes
Type Words
Type of taxonomic category, taxon, taxonomic group
Has types bryozoa, cephalochordata, chaetognatha, chordata, cnidaria, coelenterata, craniata, cryptophyta, ctenophora, cycliophora, division, echinodermata, ectoprocta, endoprocta, entoprocta, mollusca, nematoda, nemertea, nemertina, pentastomida, phoronida, phoronidea, phylum acanthocephala, phylum annelida, phylum arthropoda, phylum aschelminthes, phylum brachiopoda, phylum bryozoa, phylum chaetognatha, phylum chordata, phylum cnidaria, phylum coelenterata, phylum cryptophyta, phylum ctenophora, phylum cycliophora, phylum echinodermata, phylum ectoprocta, phylum entoprocta, phylum mollusca, phylum nematoda, phylum nemertea, phylum nemertina, phylum phoronida, phylum platyhelminthes, phylum pogonophora, phylum porifera, phylum protozoa, phylum pyrrophyta, phylum rotifera, phylum sipuncula, platyhelminthes, pogonophora, polyzoa, porifera, protozoa, pyrrophyta, rotifera, sipuncula, vertebrata, annelida, arthropoda, aschelminthes, brachiopoda, subphylum vertebrata, tunicata, urochorda, urochordata, acanthocephala, subphylum cephalochordata, subphylum craniata, subphylum pentastomida, subphylum tunicata, subphylum urochorda, subphylum urochordata

phylum::noun | Spocien Dictionary

phylum
noun
/'faɪləm/
(linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related
Type Words
Type of social group

Examples of phylum

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The exact relationship to other members of the phylum has not yet been resolved.
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It places the language into the Tahitic phylum of the Polynesian language family.
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He meant they could have been parasitic and not belonging to the phylum trilobita.
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This allowed the researchers to focus on patterns within one microbial phylum.
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Anabaena sphaerica belongs to the domain bacteria in the phylum cyanobacteria.
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He now assigns former members of the kingdom Archezoa to the phylum Amoebozoa.
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The Chadic languages belong to a different language phylum called Afroasiatic.
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A phylum is the highest level in the Linnean system for classifying organisms.
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Hydra are simple animals that, along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria.
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  • (linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related
  • (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes
  • In biology, a phylum (plural: phyla)"Phylum" is adopted from the Greek phylai, the clan-based voting groups in Greek city-states. is a taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class. "Phylum" is equivalent to the botanical term division. ...
  • A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. ...
  • (Phyla (comics)) Phyla-Vell is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She has gone by the names Quasar, Captain Marvel and Martyr. She was created by Peter David and Paul Azaceta in Captain Marvel (vol. 4) #16 (December 2003).
  • (Phyla (genus)) Phyla is a genus of eustarid plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. Species in this genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit. Species once classified under genus Lippia may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb (P. ...
  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  • (Phyla) A higher level grouping of organisms that typically have a unique body plan. There is no necessary objective basis for determining which animals are so different as to warrant assignment as a phylum, but there is nonetheless general agreement on most of the existing phyla.
  • (Phyla) Above the family kingdoms are broken into Phyla. As we shall see, within each Phyla there is something distinctive about the mode of reproduction andmorphology
LeafTensor is a decentralized system.