What is the meaning of vertebrate?

noun

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

adjective

  • Having a backbone or spinal column.
    • usage: "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"
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