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phyla

American  
[fahy-luh] / ˈfaɪ lə /

noun

  1. plural of phylum.

  2. plural of phylon.


phyla British  
/ ˈfaɪlə /

noun

  1. the plural of phylum

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Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

Of the nearly 600 genomes characterized, microbes represented 50 distinct phyla and 18 candidate phyla.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

"There are 34 different animal phyla living on this planet and in over roughly 600 million years they have all come up with different solutions to the same fundamental biological problems," Lowe said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Domain archaea includes the phyla euryarchaeotes, crenarchaeotes, nanoarchaeotes, and korarchaeotea.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

As far back as the record extends they show no sign of becoming merged with other phyla in any synthetic group.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)