Word Meanings - VERTEBRATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebræ, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata
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One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebræ, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.
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- COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - GRANDEUR
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - GRANDEESHIP
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
A grand mother. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - GRANDUNCLE
father's or mother's uncle. - REPRESENTANT
Appearing or acting for another; representing. - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - VERTEBRAL
Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - GRANDIFIC
Making great. Bailey. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - GRANDILOQUENT
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - SACROVERTEBRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle. - INVERTEBRATE
Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - INVERTEBRATA
A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - INTERCARTILAGINOUS
Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification. - SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
The aggrandizement of one's self.