vertebrate

'vertebrate' in Webster

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{ Ver"te*brate   (?), 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.
2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.
Henslow.
 3. (Zoöl.) Having movable joints resembling vertebr&aelig;; -- said of the arms
ophiurans.
 4. (Zoöl.) Of or
pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form
vertebrate.
 
Ver"te*brate   (?), n.
(Zoöl.) One of the Vertebrata.

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