Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vertebrate"
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) 1.7 (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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