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Vertebrate   /vˈərtəbrˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Vertebrated, Vertebrate  adj.  
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.
3.
(Zool.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; said of the arms of ophiurans.
4.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; used only in the form vertebrate.


noun
Vertebrate  n.  (Zool.) One of the Vertebrata.





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"Vertebrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... another class of high-protein or tissue-building food. As this term is generally understood, it includes both vertebrate fish—that is, fish having a backbone, such as salmon, cod, shad, etc.—and many other water animals, such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp, oysters, and clams. A distinction, however, is generally made between these two groups, those having bones being regarded properly as fish and those partly or ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 - Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
... had made a little advance an infidel or an atheist—for in the history of this world the man who is ahead has always been called a heretic—would rather come from a race that started from that skulless vertebrate, and came up and up and up and finally produced Shakespeare, the man who found the human intellect dwelling in a hut, touched it with the wand of his genius and it became a palace domed and pinnacled; Shakespeare, who harvested ...
— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll
... first Darwin of antiquity, for he is said to have begun his creation from below, and after passing from the invertebrate to the sub-vertebrate, from thence to the backbone, from the backbone to the mammalia, and from the mammalia to the manco- cerebral, he compounded man ...
— Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces • Samuel Butler
... evolutionary development of this instinct is not altogether mysterious. Science can fairly well trace the successive steps in the development of the central nervous mechanism, from the amoeba to the highest type of vertebrate. "Nerve channels" are worn by the repeated transmission of impulses over the same tracts. Coordinations become in successive generations more complex and more perfect. As consciousness develops further, in each succeeding type, actions originally ...
— The Psychology of Singing - A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern • David C. Taylor
... can possibly be worse than the present state of affairs in native administration, and the interests of the Colony demand a vertebrate government of some sort, whoever it may be composed of, instead of the invertebrate formation that is now called a government, and which drifts into and creates ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger


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