phylum
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
phylum
n 1: (linguistics) a large group of languages that are
historically related
2: (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants;
contains classes
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "phylum":
affiliation, antonomasia, apparentation, binomial nomenclature,
biological classification, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype,
birth, blood, bloodline, branch, brand, breed, cast, character,
clan, class, classification, color, common ancestry, consanguinity,
denomination, derivation, descent, description, designation,
direct line, distaff side, extraction, family, feather,
female line, filiation, form, genotype, genre, genus, glossology,
grain, house, ilk, kidney, kin, kind, kingdom, label, line,
line of descent, lineage, lot, make, male line, manner, mark, mold,
nature, nomenclature, number, onomastics, onomatology, order,
orismology, persuasion, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, race,
section, seed, sept, series, shape, side, sort, spear side,
species, spindle side, stamp, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stripe,
style, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder,
subspecies, subtribe, succession, superclass, superfamily,
superorder, superspecies, sword side, systematics, taxonomy,
terminology, the like of, the likes of, toponymy, tribe,
trinomialism, type, variety
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