cordate

adj

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

noun

1. Any animal with a heart.

   “If, for instance, the context:”

   “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.”

2. A heart-shaped hand axe.

   “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.”

3. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of chordate.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordate.”