GRE Word List
PHYLUM
a direct line of descent within a group
The meaning of the word phylum is a direct line of descent within a group.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |