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Vertebrate

Vertebrate Meaning & Definition
Vertebrate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Vertebrate?

[n] animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
[adj] (zoology) having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Vertebrate: craniate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Vertebrate:

See Also | Amniota | amniote | amphibian | aquatic vertebrate | belly | bird | caudal appendage | chest | chordate | costa | Craniata | dactyl | digit | fetus | foetus | gnathostome | mammal | pectus | pedal extremity | reptile | reptilian | rib | subphylum Craniata | subphylum Vertebrata | tail | tetrapod | thorax | Vertebrata | vertebrate foot

Vertebrate In Webster's Dictionary

\Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Vertebrata.
\Ver"te*brate\, Vertebrated \Ver"te*bra`ted\, a. [L. vertebratus.] 1. (Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes. 2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. --Henslow. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Having movable joints resembling vertebr[ae]; -- said of the arms ophiurans. 4. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.

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