cephalochordate

1. 1.

   fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column

   Broaderchordate

   Narrowerlancelet

   Part ofCephalochordata

Other forms of cephalochordate

plural

cephalochordates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cephalochordate

What does cephalochordate mean?

cephalochordate means "fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column".

How many syllables are in cephalochordate?

cephalochordate has 5 syllables: ce-pha-lo-chor-date. The stress falls on "lo".

Is cephalochordate a common word?

cephalochordate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.