having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals
{i} something which has a spinal column, something which belongs to the class of vertebrates
Any animal belonging to Vertebrata, characterized by internal skeleton of cartilage or bone, and specialized organization of the anterior end of the animal
Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes
An animal with a backbone; the category includes mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and amphibians
Animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, including the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, all of which are characterized by having a segmented bony or cartilaginous spinal column