chordate vs beast

chordate and beast both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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

chordate (adjective)	beast (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata