Cordate vs. Chordate

Cordateadjective

(botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.

Cordateadjective

Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

Cordateadjective

(of a leaf) shaped like a heart

Chordatenoun

A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine

Chordateadjective

Of such animals.

Chordatenoun

any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column

Chordateadjective

of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

Chordate

A chordate () is an animal of the phylum Chordata (). All chordates possess 5 synapomorphies, or primary characteristics, at some point during their larval or adulthood stages that distinguish them from all other taxa.