What is the meaning of the word "vertebrate"?

Definitions:

  1. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium copy to clipboard noun
    • Humans are vertebrates. copy to clipboard
  2. having a backbone or spinal column copy to clipboard adjective
    • Is this a vertebrate animal? copy to clipboard

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