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How to use phylum in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Phylum means a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank. Example: “Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.”

Examples of phylum by meaning

nounA rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division...

  • Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.
  • The discovery of an organism so unusual that it needs its own phylum is an extremely rare event.1995 December 14, Natalie Angier, “Flyspeck on a Lobster Lip Turns Biology on Its Ear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

More sentences with phylum

  • Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.From the entry rank
  • Achaetous gill-less tails are a typical trait for the juvenile stage of development in species of Arenicolidae (phylum Annelida).From the entry achaetous
  • A technique that is often poorly used is the “phylum and characteristics” approach.2011 October 19, BJU Press, Biology Teacher Edition with CD Grade 10 4th Edition, page 341. From the entry phylal
  • Peanut worms (phylum Sipunculida) are drab-colored bottom dwellers, most of which are less then four inches long.1990, Deborah A. Coulombe, Seaside Naturalist, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry introvert
  • Marine oomycotes are eukaryotic mycelial decomposers that have swimming, biflagellate propagules and lie in the Kingdom Chromista (or Protoctista), phylum Oomycota.2007, M.P. Weinstein, Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, page 163. From the entry oomycote
  • Roundworms, rotifers, and gastrotrichs are grouped together for anatomical reasons as one phylum, although some authorities give each a phylal status.1962, introductory zoology, page 58. From the entry phylal
  • He's at relative rhetorical ease with classy theoretical jabber such as emergent behavior, cyborganics, chaos theory, transparent interfaces, artificial life, and the machinic phylum.1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry jabber
  • The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum.2008, Jouni Filip Maho, “Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo”, in Folke Josephson, Ingmar Söhrman, editors, Interdependence of…. From the entry persistive
  • As we already have had occasion to remark for the gnetal and casuarinal alliances, a ½ floral symmetry is evidently an ancient one for that phylum.1918, John Muirhead Macfarlane, The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution, page 371. From the entry gnetal
  • Phylum uncertain, but in the past has been placed in the Phylum Proarticulata based on its "symmetry of gliding reflection" where segments meet along the midline in a zigzag fashion.2007, Mikhail A. Fedonkin, The Rise of Animals, page 281. From the entry dickinsoniomorph

Meaning of phylum

  1. noun A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank.
  2. noun A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.

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Questions about phylum in a sentence

How do you use phylum in a sentence?
Phylum is used as a noun. For example: “Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.”
What is a short sentence with phylum?
“Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.”
What does phylum mean?
Phylum means a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank.

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