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Definition of Craniate
1. Noun. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
Specialized synonyms: Fetus, Foetus, Amniota, Amniote, Aquatic Vertebrate, Gnathostome, Bird, Amphibian, Reptile, Reptilian, Mammal, Mammalian, Tetrapod
Generic synonyms: Chordate
Group relationships: Craniata, Subphylum Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata
Terms within: Belly, Tail, Caudal Appendage, Costa, Rib, Chest, Pectus, Thorax, Pedal Extremity, Vertebrate Foot, Dactyl, Digit
Examples of category: Costa, Rib, Blood, Ovary, Endoskeleton
Derivative terms: Vertebrate
Definition of Craniate
1. Noun. (zoology) Any member of the clade ''Craniata'' bearing bony skulls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Craniate
1. one that has a skull [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Craniate
Literary usage of Craniate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"In consequence of the great development of the brain, even in the lowest craniate
Vertebrates, as compared with Amphioxus, and in consequence too of the ..."
2. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"The inevitable conclusion is that, of the five groups of craniate Vertebrates,
fish are the most primitive; and that the other four groups are descended, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"To pass from such a Worm-Uke animal to a craniate, we have to account for and
introduce, amongst other Dew developments, (1) a greatly increased metamerism, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"It is, however, neither a craniate nor a Gnathostome, ... Let us now pass to a
consideration of the relationships of the craniate Vertebrata. ..."
5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"as that of the prone] >hric duct in the craniate, while the genital vesicle of
A mp/i ... of the craniate and consequently also of the canals of the ..."
6. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"In consequence of the great development of the brain, even in the lowest craniate
Vertebrates, as compared with Amphioxus, and in consequence too of the ..."
7. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"The inevitable conclusion is that, of the five groups of craniate Vertebrates,
fish are the most primitive; and that the other four groups are descended, ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"To pass from such a Worm-Uke animal to a craniate, we have to account for and
introduce, amongst other Dew developments, (1) a greatly increased metamerism, ..."
9. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"It is, however, neither a craniate nor a Gnathostome, ... Let us now pass to a
consideration of the relationships of the craniate Vertebrata. ..."
10. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"as that of the prone] >hric duct in the craniate, while the genital vesicle of
A mp/i ... of the craniate and consequently also of the canals of the ..."
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