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Vertebrate - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Vertebrate : adj : having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians
and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate
animals" [ant: invertebrate]
(noun)
1: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a
segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a
skull or cranium [syn: craniate]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Vertebrate : \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the Vertebrata.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Vertebrate |
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