vertebrate

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Synonyms for vertebrate

noun animal

noun. animate being; mammal

noun. animate being; mammal

noun. animal

noun. animal

1826, from Latin vertebratus (Pliny), from vertebra "joint or articulation of the body, joint of the spine" (see vertebra).

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Both these sets of muscles, therefore, dwindle and disappear in the vertebrate.