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vertebrate |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Vertebrata. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: vertebrate adj : (zoology) having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals [ant: {invertebrate}] n : animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium [syn: {craniate}]
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