Cordate vs. Chordate — What's the Difference?

Having a heart-shaped outline

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.

(philosophy) Any animal with a heart.

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.

(archaeology) A heart-shaped hand axe.

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

Misspelling of chordate

Of such animals.

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

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

Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

(of a leaf) shaped like a heart