Phylum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 62 anagrams from letters in phylum (hlmpuy).
1875-80; New Latin Greek phŷlon tribe, stock; see phylon
Luminescence is more widespread in this phylum and more characteristic of the group as a whole than any other.
Little by little the phylum has been shorn of orders and classes.
Next to the Gasteropoda, it is the largest class of the phylum in number of genera and species.
As a class it possesses all the most characteristic features of the phylum, though it is frequently modified in a high degree.
The archetype of the genus, family, order, class and phylum was thus conceived to have had at some past time a real existence.
Hence these five backboned classes may be brought together into a higher group called a branch or phylum.
We may profitably use it only as a lay figurea sort of manikin, which will introduce us to the phylum.
The higher animals begin with the twelfth phylum, namely, the Chordata, or vertebrates.
Nor is this hiatus confined to the Molluscan phylum; it is the same for all branches of the animal kingdom.
The phylum also includes, as one of its large suborders, all the snails and slugs that are to be found crawling upon the land.
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