cordate

comparative more cordate · superlative most cordate

1. biologyHeart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.

   Synonyms: cordiform

plural cordates

1. human sciencesAny animal with a heart.

   If, for instance, the context:

   1970, Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, pages 8–9

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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.

   2002, Timothy McCarthy, Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, page 124

   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.

   2008, Peter Loptson, Freedom, Nature, and World, page 78

   It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.

   2012, K. Mulligan, Language, Truth and Ontology, page 16

   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.

   2021, Ken Akiba, “Vaguenss from the philosophical point of view”, in Apostolos Syropoulos, Basil K. Papadopoulos, editors, Vagueness in the Exact Sciences, page 6

2. archaeologyA heart-shaped hand axe.

   Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.

   1985, John Wymer, The Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia, page 107

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   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.

   1977, D. K. Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya, Palaeolithic Europe, page 46

   Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.

   2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122

3. misspellingMisspelling of chordate.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordate.