Vertebrate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
vertebrate
n.
something which has a spinal column, something which belongs to the class of vertebrates
adj.
having a spinal column, belonging to the class of vertebrates
Vertebrate
Vertebrates comprise any species of
animals within the
subphylum Vertebrata (
chordates with
backbones). Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the
phylum Chordata, with currently about 64,000
species described. Vertebrates include the
jawless fish and the
jawed vertebrates, which includes the
cartilaginous fish (
sharks and
rays) and the
bony fish. A bony
fish clade known as the
lobe-finned fishes is included with
tetrapods, which are further divided into
amphibians,
reptiles,
mammals, and
birds.
Extant vertebrates range in size from the
frog species
Paedophryne amauensis, at as little as , to the
blue whale, at up to . Vertebrates make up about 4% of all described
animal species; the rest are
invertebrates, which lack
vertebral columns.
vertebrate
Noun
1. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
(synonym) craniate
(hypernym) chordate
(hyponym) fetus, foetus
(member-holonym) Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata
(part-meronym) belly
(class) rib, costa
Adjective
1. having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"
(antonym) invertebrate
(classification) zoology, zoological science
vertebrato
adj.
vertebrate, vertebrated
vertebrate
n.
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