vertebration

American  

[vur-tuh-brey-shuhn] / ˌvɜr təˈbreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. vertebrate formation.

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vertebration British  

/ ˌvɜːtɪˈbreɪʃən /

noun

1. the formation of vertebrae or segmentation resembling vertebrae

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Etymology

Origin of vertebration

First recorded in 1880–85; vertebrate + -ion

Example Sentences

There is so little apparent artifice in Whitman's case that he has been accused of being entirely without art, and of throwing his matter together in a haphazard way,—"without thought, without selection," without "composition, evolution, vertebration of style," says Mr. Gosse.

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At first we see the vertebration in the hinder region of the skull very clearly.

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This segmentation of the muscles was the momentous historical process with which vertebration, and the development of the vertebrate stem, began.

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Thus most of the "animal organs" take part in this vertebration.

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