Usually means: Embryonic skeletal rod supporting body.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word notochord:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. notochord: Merriam-Webster
  2. notochord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. notochord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. notochord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. notochord: Vocabulary.com
  6. notochord: Wordnik
  7. notochord: Wiktionary
  8. notochord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. notochord: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. notochord: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. notochord: Dictionary.com
  12. Notochord: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Notochord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. notochord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. notochord: Rhymezone
  16. Notochord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. notochord: FreeDictionary.org
  18. notochord: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. notochord: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. notochord: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. notochord: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Notochord: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Notochord: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. notochord: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Notochord: USGS Paleontology Glossary of Terms
  2. notochord: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. notochord: Natural History Terms

(Note: See notochordal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (notochord)

noun:  A flexible rodlike structure that forms the main support of the body in the lowest chordates; a primitive spine.
noun:  A similar structure found in the embryos of vertebrates from which the spine develops.

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