Found 2 items, similar to vertebrate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vertebrate vertebrate adj : having a backbone or spinal column; “fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals” [ant: invertebrate] vertebrate n : animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium [syn: craniate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vertebrate Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Vertebrata. [1913 Webster] Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, Vertebrated \Ver"te*bra`ted\, a. [L. vertebratus.] 1. (Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. --Henslow. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo["o]l.) Having movable joints resembling vertebr[ae]; -- said of the arms ophiurans. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate. [1913 Webster]