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Vertebrate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vertebrate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vertebrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as an animal; as man, quadrupeds, fowls, amphibia, and fishes.

Vertebrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.

2. Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.

3. Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.

4. Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.