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/ˈkɔːdeɪt/ · adjective
(botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base..
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The organisms in any sample of tigers will almost always happen to exemplify genetic properties more specific than the property shared by exactly the tigers, as well as a number of more inclusive ones such as properties common to all mammals or to all cordates.
Sciences of cordates — creatures with hearts — are, for example, less general or comprehensive than sciences of living things, and the latter are less comprehensive and general than sciences of moving things.
It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.
However, the property of being a cordate and the property of being a renate are different properties; the former has something to do with hearts and the latter has something to do with kidneys.
The upper loam (E) has been reported to have yielded several white-patinated implements, including a large number of pointed handaxes, cordates, ovates and cleavers.
Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.
Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.
Use cordate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cordate means (botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base..
Common synonyms include cordiform, simple, heart-shaped, unsubdivided.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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