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Vertebrate   /vˈərtəbrˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Vertebrated, Vertebrate  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
2.
(Bot.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.
3.
(Zool.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; said of the arms of ophiurans.
4.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; used only in the form vertebrate.


noun
Vertebrate  n.  (Zool.) One of the Vertebrata.





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"Vertebrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... in nature, a thing is echoed and repeated throughout its parts. Each leaf on a tree is itself a tree in miniature, each blossom a modified leaf; every vertebrate animal is a complicated system of spines; the ripple is the wave of a larger wave, and that larger wave is a part of the ebbing and flowing tide. In music this law is illustrated in the return of the tonic to itself in the octave, and its partial return in the dominant; also in a more ...
— The Beautiful Necessity • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... classical ideal. Imitations followed, mingling, as in the case of the Duomo, Gothic and classic elements, often with fine effect. It is quite possible to believe that, had this intermarriage of the two schools continued to bear fruit, some vertebrate style might have resulted from the union, partaking of the nature of both parents; but the hope was of short duration. Its architects, becoming enamored by the quality of scientific precision, which is the fundamental principle of classical design, soon abandoned ...
— Wood-Carving - Design and Workmanship • George Jack
... The great question of the origin of the human race, or of "man's place in Nature," the "question of all questions," was then scientifically answered: "Man is descended from a series of ape-like Mammals." The descent of man (anthropogeny) discloses the long series of vertebrate ancestors, which preceded the late origin of this, ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel
... for instance, to fishes, amongst which some naturalists rank those as highest which, like the sharks, approach nearest to amphibians; whilst other naturalists rank the common bony or teleostean fishes as the highest, inasmuch as they are most strictly fishlike and differ most from the other vertebrate classes. We see still more plainly the obscurity of the subject by turning to plants, amongst which the standard of intellect is, of course, quite excluded; and here some botanists rank those plants as highest which have ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... pavements; of the crowds in the passenger cars, elevators, lobbies, one wonders little where they are going. Answering advertisements, forsooth. Vertebrate brothers of the codfish. But these others! Ah, one stands on the curb with the vanilla phosphate playing havoc with one's blood and wonders ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht


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