1.
[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.
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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.
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2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the
spine in animals. --Henslow.
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3. (Zool.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; --
said of the arms of ophiurans.
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4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only
in the form vertebrate.
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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