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語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈfaɪləm/
• Homophone: filum
• 韻: -aɪləm

名詞

phylum (plural phyla or (nonstandard) 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

派生語

関連する語

• phylo-
• phylon

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpʰyː.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfiː.lum]

名詞

phȳlum n (genitive phȳlī); second declension

1. (New Latin) phylum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).