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US
/ˈvɝtəˌbɹeɪt/
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[ UK /vˈɜːtɪbɹˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /vˈɜːtɪbɹˌeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
ADJECTIVE
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having a backbone or spinal column
fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals
How To Use vertebrate In A Sentence
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
- E.g. the genes are found in sea urchins and other non-vertebrate deuterostome genomes. Assessing Applegate's Attack
- Neither type corresponds precisely to that seen in vertebrate enamel, and the extreme variation in crystal orientation is puzzling.
- Following Simpson, Newell mentioned the example of the relatively wider limb bones of larger land vertebrates.
- A postdoctoral position, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is available to work with Dr Tokiharu Takahashi on the evolutionary origin of multiple cell lineages in vertebrate haematopoiesis. Naturejobs - All Jobs
- In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans.
- There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
