Vertebrate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zool.)
     One of the Vertebrata.
     [1913 Webster] Vertebrate

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vertebrate
       adj : 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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