vertebrate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having a backbone or spinal column

   Is this a vertebrate animal?

2. 2
   noun

   animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

   Humans are vertebrates.

3. 3
   noun

   An animal having a backbone: one belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata.

   Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate.

4. 4
   adj

   Having a backbone.

From the substantivization of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Vertebrata) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more).

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