VERTEBRATE

vertebrate

(adjective) having a backbone or spinal column; “fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals”

vertebrate, craniate

(noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

vertebrate (not comparable)

Having a backbone.

Noun

vertebrate (plural vertebrates)

An animal having a backbone.

Antonyms

• invertebrate

Hyponyms

• See also vertebrate

Source: Wiktionary


Ver"te*brate, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: One of the Vertebrata.

Ver"te*brate, Ver"te*bra`ted, a. Etym: [L. vertebratus.]

1. (Anat.)

Definition: Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. Henslow.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Having movable joints resembling vertebræ; -- said of the arms ophiurans.

4. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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