- vertebrate - having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"
Antonym: invertebrate
- vertebrate, craniate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
--1 is a kind of chordate
--1 is a member of
--1 has parts:Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata
--1 has particulars:belly; tail; caudal appendage; rib, costa; thorax, chest, pectus; vertebrate foot, pedal extremity; digit, dactyl fetus, foetus; Amniota; amniote; aquatic vertebrate; gnathostome; bird; amphibian; reptile, reptilian; mammal; tetrapod