Definition of Vertebrate

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


2. Adjective. Having a backbone or spinal column. "Fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"
Category relationships: Zoological Science, Zoology
Antonyms: Invertebrate

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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