Meaning of phylum in English
(Definition of phylum from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of phylum from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of phylum
phylum
Now, comb jellies aren't true jellyfish, but an entirely different phylum.
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You're so ancient and unique and bizarre, so far removed from something like the average earthworm, that you get your very own phylum.
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Among the protostomes, the lateral rhabdomeric receptors have been retained and elaborated in different ways in different phyla.
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How are these photoreceptor cells used by animals in these four phyla?
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No statistically significant differences were detected at the phylum or order levels.
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However, in both species the same three phyla were the dominant one.
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The most abundant phylum in feces of all dogs was regardless of synbiotic treatment.
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Both show a high degree of conservation across animal phyla, from insects to mammals.
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These two phyla accounted for approximately 90% of all bacteria present.
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This conclusion appears to hold for our four focal phyla.
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We considered the unweighted data and also weighting the estimates by reported relative abundance of the bacterial phyla in cattle feces [53].
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To the extent that dispersed photoreceptor cells have been positively confirmed in the four focal phyla, support for this hypothesis is ambiguous.
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Although there have been no detailed morphological studies of dispersed photoreceptor cells in this phylum, these cells are often associated with pigmented cells.
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No other phylum accounted for more than 7% of sequences.
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While metabarcoding has not been used in many parasitological studies so far, high-throughput sequencing has had a major impact on the study of helminth phyla, e.g.
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