Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Cephalochordate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column
Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata, including the lancelets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata
Of or pertaining to these creatures.