1. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
   - craniate

1. Having a backbone or spinal column
   "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are vertebrate animals"

Derived forms: vertebrates

Type of: chordate

Antonym: invertebrate

Part of: Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata

Encyclopedia: Vertebrate

• conundrum
• conurbation
• Conuropsis
• Conuropsis carolinensis
• convalesce
• convalescence
• convalescent
• Convallaria
• Convallaria majalis
• Convallariaceae
• convect
• one-fifth
• one-flowered pyrola
• one-flowered wintergreen
• one-fourth
• one-half
• one-handed
• one-hitter
• one-horse
• one-horse town
• one-humped
• one-hundred-millionth
• one-hundred-thousandth
• one-hundredth
• one-liner