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Notochord

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A flexible rodlike structure that forms the main support of the body in the lowest chordates; a primitive spine.
  2. 2
    a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar structure found in the embryos of vertebrates from which the spine develops.

Etymology

From noto- + chord.

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