Definitions
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
Word origin
Adapted borrowing of French vertébré, from Latin vertebrātus (“jointed”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
Used in a sentence
“Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Backboned creature”10 letters
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