Vertebrate synonyms

vûr'tə-brĭt, -brāt'

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having a spinal column
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craniate
(Zoology) Any member of the clade Craniata bearing bony skulls.
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vertebral
Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.
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of the Vertebrata
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mammal (related)
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invertebrate (antonym)
Lacking a backbone or spinal column; not vertebrate.
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mammalian (related)
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metazoan (related)
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amphibian (related)
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arthropod (related)
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chordate (related)
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tetrapod (related)
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non-mammalian (related)
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protozoon (related)
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schistosome (related)
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prokaryotes (related)
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multicellular (related)
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Vertebrate Sentence Examples

  • They occur in vertebrate animals throughout the globe, though varying in abundance in different districts and at different times.

  • Vertebrate host, Athene noctua, Little Owl; invertebrate host, Culex pipiens.

  • By a simple modification, the open pit becomes a solid ectodermal ingrowth, just as in Teleostean fishes the hollow medullary tube, or the auditory pit of other vertebrate embryos, is formed at first as a solid cord of cells, which acquires a cavity secondarily.

  • Smith Woodward's Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology (Cambridge, 1898).

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