Meaning Of The Word Hemichordate

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Hemichordate Meaning

Hemichordate Definition
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What's The Definition Of Hemichordate?

hemichordate in American English
any hemichordate animal
of or pertaining to a phylum (Hemichordata) of wormlike marine animals with visceral clefts and primitive nervous and circulatory systems
adjective: belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms
noun: a hemichordate animal, having a vertebratelike hollow nerve cord and an echinodermlike larval stage

hemichordate in British English
adjective: of, relating to, or belonging to the subphylum Hemichordata
noun: any small wormlike marine animal of the subphylum Hemichordata (or Hemichorda), having numerous gill slits in the pharynx: phylum Chordata (chordates)

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