vertebrate

  • (a) having a backbone or spinal column
    • fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals

Nouns

  • (n) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium craniate,

Synonyms

craniate

Antonyms

invertebrate spineless

Words of close approximity

Vertebrata
vertebral
Vertebrata
vertebrate foot vertebrate paleontology