Word Meaning

Meaning of vertebrated

- Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
- Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.
- Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.
- Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.