Crossword-Solution: PHYLUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phylum | n. | One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PHYLUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Basic branch of the animal kingdom. | 1 answer |
| Basic division of animal kingdom. | 1 answer |
| Chordata, for humans | 1 answer |
| Level between kingdom and class | 1 answer |
| Taxonomic subdivision | 1 answer |
| Yours is Chordata | 1 answer |
| the major taxonomic group of animals and plants | 1 answer |
| GROUP of species | 2 answers |
| BIOLOGICAL group | 5 answers |
| BIOLOGICAL category | 10 answers |
| A TAXONOMIC GROUP COMPRISING A MAJOR DIVISION OF A KINGDOM | 11 answers |
| A LARGE GROUP OF LANGUAGES THAT ARE HISTORICALLY RELATED | 11 answers |
| Biological Classification | 12 answers |
| Genus | 44 answers |
| species | 54 answers |
| Classification | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PHYLUM (5)
The steps of modification and change are very similar to those through which the camel phylum passed in North America, but it is instructive to note that, despite their many resemblances, the two series can be connected only in their far distant beginnings.
The Brachiopoda, or "lamp-shells," are a phylum of which comparatively few survive to the present day; their shells have a superficial likeness to those of the bivalved Mollusca, but are not homologous with the latter, and the phylum is really very distinct from the molluscs.
The great point of morphological comparison was the presence of two kinds of spore, and this was known to occur in the recent Lycopods and Water-ferns (Rhizocarpeae) and was also found in fossil representatives of the third phylum, that of the Horsetails.
This conclusion is of far-reaching significance, for we have already found reason to think that the Angiosperms themselves sprang, in later times, from the Cycadophytic stock; it thus appears that the Fern-phylum, taken in a broad sense, ultimately represents the source from which the main line of descent of the Phanerogams took its rise.
The tendency, therefore, of modern work on the palaeontological record of the Seed-plants has been to exalt the importance of the Fern-phylum, which, on present evidence, appears to be that from which the great majority, possibly the whole, of the Spermophyta have been derived.
Quotes with PHYLUM (2)
Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, ev…
Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–2020).