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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, noun (Zo["o]l.) One of the Vertebrata.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, Vertebrated \Ver"te*bra'ted\, adjective [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) 2.0 [wn]:
vertebrate
adjective: having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals" [ant: {invertebrate}]
noun: 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
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