| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | phy·lum |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f  l m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. phy·la (-l)
1. Biology A primary division of a kingdom, as of the animal kingdom, ranking next above a class in size. See table at taxonomy. 2. Linguistics A large division of possibly genetically related families of languages or linguistic stocks. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin ph lum, from Greek ph lon, class. See bheu- in Appendix I.
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