vertebrates

[ (vur-tuh-bruhts, vur-tuh-brayts) ]

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Animals that have a spinal cord enclosed in a backbone.

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The five traditional classes of vertebrates are amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles. (Compare invertebrates.)

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Human beings are vertebrates.

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How to use vertebrates in a sentence

Owen says that the thymus appears in vertebrates with the establishment of the lung as the main or exclusive respiratory organ.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
The only example among vertebrates is that of the beavers, members of the low order of rodents.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
There remain for consideration the lesser mammals and other vertebrates whose fecundatory instruments resemble those of mammifera.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
The amphioxus, the bridge between invertebrates and vertebrates, is not hermaphrodite.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont

Of vertebrates, we may find the bones and teeth of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology|J. E. Marr

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