phylum

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phylum

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From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, race”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪləm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophone: filum
• Rhymes: -aɪləm

phylum (plural phyla or phylums)

1. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank

   Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.

   • 1995 December 14, Natalie Angier, “Flyspeck on a Lobster Lip Turns Biology on Its Ear”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     While biologists are perpetually finding new species, they can almost always fit the organism into one of the existing taxonomic pigeonholes by which scientists classify life forms. The discovery of an organism so unusual that it needs its own phylum is an extremely rare event.

2. (linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.

   Synonym: superstock

• subphylum
• superphylum

• phylo-
• phylon

• IPA^(key): /fi.lɔm/

phylum m (plural phylums)

1. (taxonomy) phylum

   Synonym: embranchement

• “phylum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

phylum

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From Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.lum/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lum/,

phylum n (genitive phylī); second declension

1. phylum

Second-declension noun (neuter).