chordate vs animate being

chordate and animate being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chordate	Yes	Yes	No	No
animate being	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hypernyms of chordate include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

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

chordate (adjective)	animate being (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata