vertebrate

vertebrate

English

Etymology

From Latin vertebra (“joint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹ.tɪ.bɹeɪt/

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Adjective

vertebrate (not comparable)

1. Having a backbone.

Derived terms

• megavertebrate

Translations

having a backbone

Arabic: فَقَارِيّ‎ (ar) m (faqāriyy), فَقَارِيَّة‎ (ar) f (faqāriyya) Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (ołnašaravor) Basque: ornodun Belarusian: пазвано́чны (pazvanóčny), хрыбе́тны (xrybjétny) Breton: mellkeinek (br) Bulgarian: гръбна́чен (grǎbnáčen) Catalan: vertebrat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 椎骨的 (zh) (zhuīgǔ de) Dutch: gewerveld (nl) Finnish: selkärankainen (fi) French: vertébré (fr) Galician: vertebrado (gl) Georgian: ხერხემლიანი (xerxemliani) Greek: σπονδυλωτός (el) (spondylotós) Hungarian: gerinces (hu) Indonesian: bertulang belakang, vertebrata (id) Interlingua: vertebrate Irish: veirteabrach Italian: vertebrato (it) Japanese: 脊椎 (ja) (せきつい, sekitsui) Kazakh: омыртқалы (omyrtqaly) Korean: 척추(脊椎) (ko) (cheokchu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: birrbirredar n Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt) Macedonian: ’рбетнички (’rbetnički) Malay: bertulang belakang, vertebrat (ms) Navajo: bíígháán dahólónígíí Polish: kręgowy (pl) Portuguese: vertebrado (pt) Romanian: vertebrat (ro) Russian: позвоно́чный (ru) (pozvonóčnyj) Spanish: vertebrado (es) Ukrainian: хребе́тний (xrebétnyj) Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa)

Noun

vertebrate (plural vertebrates)

1. An animal having a backbone.
   • 2005, “Corporeal”, in Tender Buttons, performed by Broadcast:

     Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate

Antonyms

• invertebrate

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:vertebrate

Derived terms

• megavertebrate

Translations

an animal having a backbone

Arabic: فَقَارِيّ‎ (ar) m (faqāriyy), فَقَارِيَّة‎ (ar) f (faqāriyya) Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (ołnašaravor) Azerbaijani: onurğalı Basque: ornodun Belarusian: пазвано́чнае n (pazvanóčnaje) Breton: mellkeineg m Bulgarian: гръбна́чно (bg) n (grǎbnáčno) Catalan: vertebrat (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 脊椎動物, 脊椎动物 (zek3 zeoi1 dung6 mat6) Mandarin: 脊椎動物／脊椎动物 (zh) (jǐzhuī dòngwù) Czech: obratlovec (cs) m Danish: hvirveldyr n Dutch: gewervelde (nl), werveldier n, vertebraat (nl) m Esperanto: vertebrulo Finnish: selkärankainen (fi) French: vertébré (fr) m Galician: vertebrado (gl) m German: Wirbeltier (de) n, Vertebrat (often in plural) Greek: σπονδυλωτό (el) n (spondylotó) Hebrew: חֻלְיְתָן \\ חולייתן‎ (he) m (khulyetán) Hindi: कशेरुकी जीव (kaśerukī jīv) Hungarian: gerinces (hu) Icelandic: hryggleysingjar Indonesian: vertebrata (id), hewan vertebrata, hewan bertulang belakang Interlingua: vertebrato Irish: veirteabrach m Italian: vertebrato (it) Japanese: 脊椎動物 (ja) (せきついどうぶつ, sekitsui dōbutsu) Kannada: ಕಶೇರುಕ (kn) (kaśēruka) Kazakh: омыртқалы (omyrtqaly) Khmer: សត្វឆ្អឹងកង (sat chʼəng kɑɑng) Korean: 척추동물(脊椎動物) (ko) (cheokchudongmul) Kyrgyz: омурткалуу (omurtkaluu) Latvian: mugurkaulnieks m Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt) m Macedonian: ’рбетник m (’rbetnik) Malay: haiwan vertebrat, vertebrat (ms) Malayalam: കശേരുകി (kaśēruki) Navajo: naaldeehii bitsʼin dahólónígíí Norwegian: Bokmål: virveldyr (no) n Nynorsk: virveldyr n, ryggradsdyr n, ryggbeinsdyr n Polish: kręgowiec (pl) m Portuguese: vertebrado (pt) m Romanian: vertebrat (ro) n Russian: позвоно́чное (ru) n (pozvonóčnoje) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: крáљешњак m, кичмењак m Roman: králješnjak m, kičmenjak m Slovak: stavovec m Slovene: vretenčar (sl) m Spanish: vertebrado (es) Swedish: ryggradsdjur (sv) n Thai: สัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลัง (sàt-mii-grà-dùuk-sǎn-lǎng) Turkish: omurgalı (tr) Ukrainian: хребе́тна твари́на f (xrebétna tvarýna) Uzbek: umurtqali (uz) Vietnamese: động vật có xương sống (動物𣎏𩩪𦡠) Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa) Welsh: fertebrat (cy) m

See also

• Vertebrata

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Italian

Noun

vertebrate f

1. plural of vertebrato

Anagrams

• brevettare, brevetterà

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Latin

Adjective

vertebrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vertebrātus