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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cetacean, chordate, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin
Dictionary Results for vertebrate:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
vertebrate
    adj 1: having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and
           amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are
           verbetrate animals" [ant: invertebrate, spineless]
    n 1: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a
         segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a
         skull or cranium [syn: vertebrate, craniate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, n. (Zool.)
   One of the Vertebrata.
   [1913 Webster] Vertebrate

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vertebrate \Ver"te*brate\, Vertebrated \Ver"te*bra`ted\, a. [L.
   vertebratus.]
   1. (Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing
      the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia,
      and fishes.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the
      spine in animals. --Henslow.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Zool.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; --
      said of the arms of ophiurans.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only
      in the form vertebrate.
      [1913 Webster]

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