vertebrated

How to use vertebrated in a sentence

• The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as “all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young.”

  Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays | Thomas Henry Huxley

• In some fishes with vertebrated tail fins the fin is symmetric (Fig. 300), and this seems to be the primitive type.

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton

• This membrane is, we are told, common to all vertebrated animals, but is especially beautiful and lustrous in nocturnal animals.

  The Book of Cats | Charles H. Ross

• Can the organisation of vertebrated animals be referred to one uniform type?

  Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

• The water-population of vertebrated animals first appears in the Upper Silurian.

  The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature | Thomas Henry Huxley