Line
Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.
Phylum
Phylum noun - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes.
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Both words in one sentence
- Probably the actor accidentally switched "species" and "phylum" around from the scripted line, and nobody caught the mistake.
Source: Taxonomic Term Confusion - The Faculty contains this line: "We discovered a new phylum in biology class today; maybe even a new species." This makes no sense, because something in a new phylum would have to be in a new species.
Source: Taxonomic Term Confusion
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