chordate vs animal

chordate and animal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chordate	Yes	Yes	No	No
animal	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, animal is a hypernym of chordate; that is, animal is a word with a broader meaning than chordate:

chordate: any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column
animal: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of chordate include animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

chordate (noun)	animal (noun)
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

chordate (adjective)	animal (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata	marked by the appetites and passions of the body