English to English
adjective
- having a backbone or spinal column
Fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
source: WordNet 3.0
- One of the Vertebrata.
source: Webster 1913