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adj. Having a backbone or spinal column.

adj. Of or characteristic of vertebrates or a vertebrate.

n. A member of the subphylum Vertebrata, a primary division of the phylum Chordata that includes the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, all of which are characterized by a segmented spinal column and a distinct well-differentiated head.

adj. Having a backbone.

n. An animal having a backbone.

n. One of the Vertebrata.

adj. Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.

adj. Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.

adj. Having movable joints resembling vertebræ; -- said of the arms of ophiurans.

adj. Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.

Having vertebræ; characterized by the possession of a spinal column; backboned; in a wider sense, having a notochord, or chorda dorsalis; chordate; specifically, of or pertaining to the Vertebrata. Also vertebrated, and (rarely) vertebral.

Same as vertebral: as, a vertebrate theory of the skull.

In botany, contracted at intervals, like the vertebral column of animals, there being an articulation at each contraction, as in some leaves.

n. A vertebrated animal; any member of the Vertebrata, or, more broadly, of the Chordata: as, ascidians are supposed to be vertebrates.

To make a vertebrate of; give a backbone to; hence, figuratively, to give firmness or resolution to.

adj. having a backbone or spinal column

n. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

"Bio/Rocks is the blog of Sarah, a graduate student in vertebrate paleontology at UC Berkeley."

vertebrated   

invertebrate   

chordate   

aquatic vertebrate    amniote    foetus    amphibian    amniota    tetrapod    mammal    fetus    bird    gnathostome   

invertebrate   

invertebrate    mammal    mammalian    primate    mollusca    reptile    mammalia    marsupial    earthworm    carnivora