Lexic.us

Definition of Vertebrate

1. Adjective. Having a backbone or spinal column. "Fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"

2. Noun. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.

Definition of Vertebrate

1. n. One of the Vertebrata.

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

3. n. One of the Vertebrata.

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

Definition of Vertebrate

1. Adjective. Having a backbone. ¹

2. Noun. An animal having a backbone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Vertebrate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Vertebrate

1. One of the Vertebrata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vertebrate

vertebral part of the costal surface of the lungs vertebral plexus vertebral polyarthritis vertebral pulp vertebral region vertebral ribs vertebral vein vertebral venography vertebral venous plexus vertebral venous system

vertebrally vertebrarium vertebrarterial vertebras vertebrata vertebrate (current term) vertebrate foot vertebrate hormones vertebrate paleontology vertebrate viruses

vertebrated vertebrated catheter vertebrated probe vertebrates vertebre vertebrectomy vertebro- vertebroarterial vertebroarterial foramen vertebrobasilar

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