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adjectivevertebrated (not comparable)
- not comparablevertebrate; having vertebrae
And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach--on my vertebrated stomach!
1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon1 more example
There is not a single class of vertebrated animals which, when it first appears, is represented by analogues of the lowest known members of the same class.
1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses
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