VERTEBRATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vertebrata mean? 

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

1. fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTEBRATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata

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

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "Vertebrata"):

amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)

class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)

Channidae; class Channidae (snakeheads)

Pisces (a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically)

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

mammal family (a family of mammals)

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

class Reptilia; Reptilia (class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals)

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

reptile family (a family of reptiles)

amphibian genus (any genus of amphibians)

amphibian family (any family of amphibians)

fish family (any of various families of fish)

bird genus (a genus of birds)

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

Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)

Chondrichthyes; class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)

class Placodermi; Placodermi (extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws)

Gnathostomata; superclass Gnathostomata (comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws)

Agnatha; superclass Agnatha (superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms)

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

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

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

Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)