Usually means: Major taxonomic group, organism classification.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word phylum:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. phylum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phylum: Merriam-Webster
  3. phylum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phylum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phylum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phylum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phylum, phylum: Wordnik
  8. phylum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. phylum: Wiktionary
  10. phylum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. phylum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. phylum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. phylum: Dictionary.com
  14. phylum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Phylum (biology), Phylum (linguistics), Phylum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Phylum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. phylum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. phylum: Rhymezone
  19. Phylum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. phylum: FreeDictionary.org
  21. phylum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. phylum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phylum (biology), Phylum (disambiguation), phylum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phylum (biology), Phylum (disambiguation), phylum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. phylum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Phylum (biology), Phylum (disambiguation), phylum: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. phylum (plural phyla): Evolution Glossary
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  8. phylum: Natural History Terms
  9. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phylum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See phyla as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
noun:  (linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.

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