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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium;
[syn: vertebrate, craniate]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having a backbone or spinal column;
- Example: "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zool.) One of the Vertebrata. [1913 Webster] Vertebrate
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vertebrate \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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. --Henslow. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms of ophiurans. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vertebrate adj 1: having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals" [ant: invertebrate, spineless] n 1: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium [syn: vertebrate, craniate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "vertebrate": amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cetacean, chordate, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin