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cephalochordates

cephalochordates is the plural of cephalochordate.

Meaning of cephalochordate

Noun

cephalochordate (plural cephalochordates)

  1. Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata, including the lancelets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata

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Questions about cephalochordates

What is cephalochordates the plural of?
Cephalochordates is the plural of cephalochordate.

Words near cephalochordates in the dictionary

  1. cephaloceles
  2. cephalocentesis
  3. cephalocentric
  4. cephalocentrism
  5. cephalochordate
  6. cephalochordates
  7. cephalochromin
  8. cephalococcygeal
  9. cephalocondylic
  10. cephalodactyly
  11. cephalodia

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