Synonyms for vertebrate
ˈvɜr tə brɪt, -ˌbreɪtver·te·brate

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1. vertebratenoun

   Antonyms:
   invertebrate

2. vertebratenoun

   Having a backbone.

   Antonyms:
   invertebrate

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1. vertebrate, craniateadjective

   animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

   Synonyms:
   craniate

   Antonyms:
   spineless, invertebrate

2. vertebrateadjective

   having a backbone or spinal column

   "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"

   Antonyms:
   invertebrate, spineless

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1. • Zoology

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1. List of paraphrases for "vertebrate":

   vertebrates, spine

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1. Gaberiel Bever:

   Turtles have been missing their Archaeopteryx, their missing link to the rest of the vertebrate tree, since Darwin told us that we should be looking for one, with Odontochelys, Pappochelys and now Eunotosaurus, we now have a remarkable series of transitional forms that take us from an almost lizard-like creature to the modern turtle body plan that is so interesting and bizarre.

2. Daniel Field:

   Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors.

3. Zhou Jinfeng:

   All medicinal treatment should be on the principle of 'do no harm' to those using, or making it and to the species it depends on; meaning in most cases no vertebrate should be used within TCM.