VERTEBRATE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
   Synonym(s)
   • craniate (what does craniate mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) vertebrate is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • chordate (what does chordate mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • fetus (what does fetus mean?)
   • foetus (what does foetus mean?)
   • Amniota (what does Amniota mean?)
   • amniote (what does amniote mean?)
   • aquatic vertebrate (what does aquatic vertebrate mean?)
   • gnathostome (what does gnathostome mean?)
   • bird (what does bird mean?)
   • amphibian (what does amphibian mean?)
   • reptile (what does reptile mean?)
   • reptilian (what does reptilian mean?)
   • mammal (what does mammal mean?)
   • tetrapod (what does tetrapod mean?)

VERTEBRATE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • having a backbone or spinal column
   Usage Example(s)
   • fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals
   Antonym(s)
   • invertebrate (what does invertebrate mean?)