Vertebrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Vertebrate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Vertebrate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vertebrate adj having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals" Antonym(s): invertebrate, spineless n animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium Synonym(s): vertebrate, craniate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vertebrate \Ver"tebrate\, Vertebrated \Ver"tebra`ted\, a. [L. vertebratus.] 1. (Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes. 2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. --Henslow. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Having movable joints resembling vertebr[91]; -- said of the arms ophiurans. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Vertebrata.