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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪləm/
• Homophone: filum
• 韻: -aɪləm

名詞

phylum (複数形 phyla または 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^[1], →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

• subphylum
• superphylum

関連する語

• phylo-
• phylon

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.lum/, [ˈpʰʏɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lum/, [ˈfiːlum]

名詞

phylum n (genitive phylī); second declension

1. phylum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).