Definitions for vertebrate

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vertebrate ver·te·brate

Spelling: [vur-tuh-brit, -breyt]

IPA: /ˈvɜr tə brɪt, -ˌbreɪt/

Vertebrate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in vertebrate (abeeerrttv).

Definitions for vertebrate

noun

1. a vertebrate animal.

adjective

1. having vertebrae; having a backbone or spinal column.
2. belonging or pertaining to the Vertebrata (or Craniata), a subphylum of chordate animals, comprising those having a brain enclosed in a skull or cranium and a segmented spinal column; a major taxonomic group that includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

Origin of vertebrate

First recorded in 1820-30, vertebrate is from the Latin word vertebrātus jointed. See vertebra, -ate¹

Examples for vertebrate

It is not of the essence of the vertebrate type to be tetrapodal.

Some 28 percent of the vertebrate species red-listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature live there.

Maule appealed to the court: 'My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia!

The difference resembles that between a vertebrate animal and a worm.

He rejects Geoffroy's theory of the vertebrate nature of Articulates.

What is the evidence as to its nature in these vertebrate median eyes?

In the scale of evolution, one vertebrate was as good as another.

First invertebrate life, then the lowest forms of vertebrate life.

It is not a single if, but a several-jointed one; not an oyster, but a vertebrate.

Remember that you are a vertebrate animal, and it is by mistake that you have developed a soul.