Phylum (Noun)
Meaning 1
(linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Meaning 2
(biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- Animals and plants are grouped into distinct phylum, with classes, that display characteristic traits of each respective species.
- A classification of plants in their correct phylum would facilitate easier research of distinct varieties.
- Kingdom, phylum and class help the student study characteristics that categorize diverse living things.
- An enormous and bewildering diversity of creatures may not make identifying phylum harder or more baffling than simpler identification schemes for lower ranks like genus.
- Although you will note various techniques which students used in organizing information and labelling some kingdom or phylum groups on each taxonomy graphic provided by an internet portal of resources, research etc
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Phylum Nemertea
- Phylum Pogonophora
- Phoronidea
- Subphylum Tunicata
- Phylum Echinodermata
- Phylum Brachiopoda
- Phylum Chordata
- Polyzoa
- Phylum Entoprocta
- Phylum Pyrrophyta
- Phylum Annelida
- Subphylum Vertebrata
- Phylum Ectoprocta
- Phylum Acanthocephala
- Phylum Protozoa
- Phylum Chaetognatha
- Craniata
- Nemertina
- Phylum Cryptophyta
- Subphylum Cephalochordata
- Phylum Coelenterata
- Tunicata
- Urochorda
- Phylum Porifera
- Phylum Cycliophora
- Subphylum Pentastomida
- Phylum Phoronida
- Phylum Cnidaria
- Aschelminthes
- Subphylum Urochordata
- Subphylum Urochorda
- Phylum Ctenophora
- Phylum Aschelminthes
- Endoprocta
- Subphylum Craniata
- Phylum Sipuncula
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Phylum Platyhelminthes
- Phylum Bryozoa
- Phylum Mollusca
- Phylum Nemertina
- Coelenterata
- Phylum Nematoda
- Phylum Rotifera