Word: achordate
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: a
chor
date
Definition: Not having a proto-spinal chord at any stage of development.
Morphemes:
Affix: a-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Not, without, opposite of.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: ἀ-
Language: grc
Decoded: a-
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: The alpha privativum, used to make words that have a sense opposite to the word (or stem) to which the prefix is attached. It is also known as privative a and alpha privative.
Affix: chordate
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine