CRANIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craniate mean? 

• CRANIATE (noun)
  The noun CRANIATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CRANIATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

craniate; vertebrate

Hypernyms ("craniate" is a kind of...):

chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)

Meronyms (parts of "craniate"):

belly (the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish)

tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body)

caudal appendage (tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus)

costa; rib (any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates))

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)

pedal extremity; vertebrate foot (the extremity of the limb in vertebrates)

dactyl; digit (a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates)

Domain member category:

costa; rib (any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates))

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)

endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craniate"):

fetus; foetus (an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal)

Amniota (higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development)

amniote (any member of the Amniota)

aquatic vertebrate (animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water)

gnathostome (a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws)

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)

reptile; reptilian (any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms)

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

tetrapod (a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages)

Holonyms ("craniate" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)