[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vertebrate \ver"tebrate\, n. zool.
   one of the vertebrata.
   1913 webster vertebrate

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vertebrate \ver"tebrate\, vertebrated \ver"tebra`ted\, a. l.
   vertebratus.
   1. anat. having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing
      the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia,
      and fishes.
      1913 webster

   2. bot. contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the
      spine in animals. --henslow.
      1913 webster

   3. zool. having movable joints resembling vertebrae; --
      said of the arms of ophiurans.
      1913 webster

   4. zool. of or pertaining to the vertebrata; -- used only
      in the form vertebrate.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

vertebrate
     adj : having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians
           and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate
           animals" ant: invertebrate
     n : animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a
         segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a
         skull or cranium syn: craniate
see also:
invertebrate craniate 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 moby thesaurus words for "vertebrate":
   amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cetacean,
   chordate, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore,
   invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore,
   primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate,
   varmint, vermin

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