noun🔗ShareA tribe.""In ancient Greece, different city-states often represented distinct phyla or tribes, each with its own customs and allegiances." "groupbiologyorganismChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank"Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata."organismbiologysciencenatureanimalplantgroupChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another."Linguists group languages into different phyla, such as Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan, based on shared ancestry and characteristics. "languagelinguisticsfamilygroupChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading