adj
Meaning 1
Having a backbone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: backboned, vertebrated
Antonyms: spineless
Standard Lemma guide
vertebrate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Of, being, or pertaining to Vertebrata, animals with backbones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An animal having a backbone: one belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: invertebrate
Broader terms: animal, creature, critter
adjective
Meaning 4
having a backbone or spinal column
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: invertebrate
noun
Meaning 5
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craniate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chordate
Narrower terms: fetus, foetus, Amniota, amniote, aquatic vertebrate, gnathostome, bird, amphibian, reptile, reptilian, mammal, mammalian, tetrapod
History
Etymology
Adapted borrowing of French vertébré, from Latin vertebrātus (“jointed”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
From the substantivization of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Vertebrata) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more).
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فَقَارِيّ (faqāriyy) — having a backbone
- Arabic: فَقَارِيَّة (faqāriyya) — having a backbone
- Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (oġnašaravor) — having a backbone
- Basque: ornodun — having a backbone
- Belarusian: пазвано́чны (pazvanóčny) — having a backbone
- Belarusian: хрыбе́тны (xrybjétny) — having a backbone
- Breton: mellkeinek — having a backbone
- Bulgarian: гръбна́чен (grǎbnáčen) — having a backbone
- Catalan: vertebrat — having a backbone
- Chinese Mandarin: 椎骨的 (zhuīgǔ de) — having a backbone
- Danish: hvirveldyr — having a backbone
- Dutch: gewerveld — having a backbone
- Finnish: selkärankainen — having a backbone
- French: vertébré — having a backbone
- Galician: vertebrado — having a backbone
- Georgian: ხერხემლიანი (xerxemliani) — having a backbone
- Greek: σπονδυλωτός (spondylotós) — having a backbone
- Hungarian: gerinces — having a backbone
- Indonesian: bertulang belakang — having a backbone
- Indonesian: vertebrata — having a backbone
- Ingrian: selkäpiikäs — having a backbone
- Interlingua: vertebrate — having a backbone
- Irish: veirteabrach — having a backbone
- Italian: vertebrato — having a backbone
- Japanese: 脊椎 (sekitsui) — having a backbone
- Kazakh: омыртқалы (omyrtqaly) — having a backbone
- Korean: 척추 (cheokchu) — having a backbone
- Northern Kurdish: birrbirredar — having a backbone
- Latin: vertebrātus — having a backbone
- Lithuanian: stuburinis — having a backbone
- Macedonian: ’рбетнички (’rbetnički) — having a backbone
- Malay: bertulang belakang — having a backbone
- Malay: vertebrat — having a backbone
- Māori: whaituaiwi — having a backbone
- Navajo: bíígháán dahólónígíí — having a backbone
- Polish: kręgowy — having a backbone
- Portuguese: vertebrado — having a backbone
- Romanian: vertebrat — having a backbone
- Russian: позвоно́чный (pozvonóčnyj) — having a backbone
- Spanish: vertebrado — having a backbone
- Ukrainian: хребе́тний (xrebétnyj) — having a backbone
- Walloon: cronzoxhî — having a backbone
- Arabic: فَقَارِيّ (faqāriyy) — an animal having a backbone
- Arabic: فَقَارِيَّة (faqāriyya) — an animal having a backbone
- Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (oġnašaravor) — an animal having a backbone
- Azerbaijani: onurğalı — an animal having a backbone
- Basque: ornodun — an animal having a backbone
- Belarusian: пазвано́чнае (pazvanóčnaje) — an animal having a backbone
- Breton: mellkeineg — an animal having a backbone
- Bulgarian: гръбна́чно (grǎbnáčno) — an animal having a backbone
- Catalan: vertebrat — an animal having a backbone
- Chinese Cantonese: 脊椎動物 /脊椎动物 (zek3 zeoi1 dung6 mat6) — an animal having a backbone
- Chinese Mandarin: 脊椎動物 /脊椎动物 (jǐzhuī dòngwù) — an animal having a backbone
- Czech: obratlovec — an animal having a backbone
- Danish: hvirveldyr — an animal having a backbone
- Dutch: gewervelde — an animal having a backbone
- Dutch: werveldier — an animal having a backbone
- Dutch: vertebraat — an animal having a backbone
- Esperanto: vertebrulo — an animal having a backbone
- Finnish: selkärankainen — an animal having a backbone
- French: vertébré — an animal having a backbone
- West-Frisian: wringedier — an animal having a backbone
- West-Frisian: rêchbonkedier — an animal having a backbone
- Galician: vertebrado — an animal having a backbone
- German: Wirbeltier — an animal having a backbone
- German: Vertebrat — an animal having a backbone
- Greek: σπονδυλωτό (spondylotó) — an animal having a backbone
- Hebrew: חֻלְיְתָן \ חולייתן (khulyetán) — an animal having a backbone
- Hindi: कशेरुकी जीव (kaśerukī jīv) — an animal having a backbone
- Hungarian: gerinces — an animal having a backbone
- Icelandic: hryggleysingjar — an animal having a backbone
- Indonesian: vertebrata — an animal having a backbone
- Indonesian: hewan vertebrata — an animal having a backbone
- Indonesian: hewan bertulang belakang — an animal having a backbone
- Interlingua: vertebrato — an animal having a backbone
- Irish: veirteabrach — an animal having a backbone
- Italian: vertebrato — an animal having a backbone
- Japanese: 脊椎動物 (sekitsui dōbutsu) — an animal having a backbone
- Kannada: ಕಶೇರುಕ (kaśēruka) — an animal having a backbone
- Kazakh: омыртқалы (omyrtqaly) — an animal having a backbone
- Khmer: សត្វឆ្អឹងកង (sat chʼəng kɑɑng) — an animal having a backbone
- Korean: 척추동물 (cheokchudongmul) — an animal having a backbone
- Kyrgyz: омурткалуу (omurtkaluu) — an animal having a backbone
- Latvian: mugurkaulnieks — an animal having a backbone
- Lithuanian: stuburinis — an animal having a backbone
- Macedonian: ’рбетник (’rbetnik) — an animal having a backbone
- Malay: haiwan vertebrat — an animal having a backbone
- Malay: vertebrat — an animal having a backbone
- Malayalam: കശേരുകി (kaśēruki) — an animal having a backbone
- Māori: kararehe whaituaiwi — an animal having a backbone
- Navajo: naaldeehii bitsʼin dahólónígíí — an animal having a backbone
- Norwegian Bokmål: virveldyr — an animal having a backbone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: virveldyr — an animal having a backbone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ryggradsdyr — an animal having a backbone
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ryggbeinsdyr — an animal having a backbone
- Polish: kręgowiec — an animal having a backbone
- Portuguese: vertebrado — an animal having a backbone
- Romanian: vertebrat — an animal having a backbone
- Russian: позвоно́чное (pozvonóčnoje) — an animal having a backbone
- Serbo-Croatian: крáљешњак — an animal having a backbone
- Serbo-Croatian: кичмењак — an animal having a backbone
- Serbo-Croatian: králješnjak — an animal having a backbone
- Serbo-Croatian: kičmenjak — an animal having a backbone
- Slovak: stavovec — an animal having a backbone
- Slovene: vretenčar — an animal having a backbone
- Spanish: vertebrado — an animal having a backbone
- Swedish: ryggradsdjur — an animal having a backbone
- Thai: สัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลัง (sàt-mii-grà-dùuk-sǎn-lǎng) — an animal having a backbone
- Turkish: omurgalı — an animal having a backbone
- Ukrainian: хребе́тна твари́на (xrebétna tvarýna) — an animal having a backbone
- Uzbek: umurtqali — an animal having a backbone
- Vietnamese: động vật có xương sống — an animal having a backbone
- Walloon: cronzoxhî — an animal having a backbone
- Welsh: fertebrat — an animal having a backbone
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