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CHORDATE
Definition of CHORDATE
noun
A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.
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Other senses
CHORDATE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Any of numerous animals of the phylum Chordata, having at some stage of development a dorsal nerve cord, a notochord, and gill slits and including all vertebrates, the hagfishes, and certain marine animals such as the lancelets and the tunicates.
Having the characters of the Chordata; pertaining to or resembling the Chordata: as, a chordate animal.
adjective
Of such animals.
noun
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Translingual Chordata.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CHORDATE · 1 relative in the game
CHORDATE in a sentence
“In contrast, a region deep in the brain associated with reward processing, attention and motor movements - the chordate nucleus - was enlarged in subjects who were addicted to the drug.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHORDATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 128 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHORDATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHORDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found CHORDATE?
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