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