Vertebrate
['vɜːtɪbrət] or ['vɝtɪbrət]
Definition
(noun.) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
(adj.) having a backbone or spinal column; 'fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals' .
Checked by Casey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of the Vertebrata.
(a.) Alt. of Vertebrated
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Examples
- All vertebrate animals, all insects and some other large groups of animals, pair for each birth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The anterior and posterior limbs in all the higher vertebrate classes are plainly homologous. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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