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The fish is called a Vertebrate animal, because it has a backbone, made up of numbers of separate bones called vertebras.

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Pridham, Caroline

They consist of one of the bones of the cranium, fifteen or twenty vertebras, two entire ribs, and part of a third, one thigh bone, two bones of the leg, &c.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 by Various

A little aft of “midships” a pyramidal lump of fatty substance projected several feet above the line of the vertebras.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne

Is it his many coloured soul that "magnetises our poor vertebras," in Verlaine's phrase, and not the mere skill of his fingers?

From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Symons, Arthur

Its peculiar characteristic is its extraordinary fragility— arising from the muscles being articulated quite through the vertebras.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles