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Definition of vertebrate
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Vertebrate
(n.) One of the
Vertebrata.
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Vent
::
Vent (n.) The anal
opening
of
certain
invertebrates
and
fishes;
also, the
external
cloacal
opening
of
reptiles,
birds,
amphibians,
and many
fishes..
Invertebrate
::
Invertebrate
(a.)
Destitute
of a
backbone;
having
no
vertebrae;
of or
pertaining
to the
Invertebrata.
Postaxial
::
Postaxial
(a.)
Situated
behind
any
transverse
axis in the body of an
animal;
caudal;
posterior;
especially,
behind,
or on the
caudal
or
posterior
(that is, ulnar or
fibular)
side of, the axis of a
vertebrate
limb..
Pancreas
::
Pancreas
(n.) The
sweetbread,
a gland
connected
with the
intestine
of
nearly
all
vertebrates.
It is
usually
elongated
and
light-colored,
and its
secretion,
called
the
pancreatic
juice,
is
discharged,
often
together
with the bile, into the upper part of the
intestines,
and is a
powerful
aid in
digestion.
See
Illust.
of
Digestive
apparatus..
Skeleton
::
Skeleton
(n.) The more or less firm or
hardened
framework
of an
invertebrate
animal.
Shell
::
Shell (n.) The hard
calcareous
or
chitinous
external
covering
of
mollusks,
crustaceans,
and some other
invertebrates.
In some
mollusks,
as the
cuttlefishes,
it is
internal,
or
concealed
by the
mantle.
Also, the hard
covering
of some
vertebrates,
as the
armadillo,
the
tortoise,
and the
like..
Metamere
::
Metamere
(n.) One of
successive
or
homodynamous
parts in
animals
and
plants;
one of a
series
of
similar
parts that
follow
one
another
in a
vertebrate
or
articulate
animal,
as in an
earthworm;
a
segment;
a
somite.
See
Illust.
of
Loeven's
larva..
Vertebrate
::
Vertebrate
(n.) One of the
Vertebrata.
Pseudo-heart
::
Pseudo-heart
(n.) Any
contractile
vessel
of
invertebrates
which is not of the
nature
of a real
heart,
especially
one of those
pertaining
to the
excretory
system..
Water Tube
::
Water tube () One of a
system
of
tubular
excretory
organs
having
external
openings,
found in many
invertebrates.
They are
believed
to be
analogous
in
function
to the
kidneys
of
vertebrates.
See
Illust.
under
Trematodea,
and
Sporocyst..
Archetype
::
Archetype
(n.) The plan or
fundamental
structure
on which a
natural
group of
animals
or
plants
or their
systems
of
organs
are
assumed
to have been
constructed;
as, the
vertebrate
archetype..
Pneumoskeleton
::
Pneumoskeleton
(n.) A
chitinous
structure
which
supports
the gill in some
invertebrates.
Vagina
::
Vagina
(n.) The
terminal
part of the
oviduct
in
insects
and
various
other
invertebrates.
See
Illust.,
of
Spermatheca..
Notochord
::
Notochord
(n.) An
elastic
cartilagelike
rod which is
developed
beneath
the
medullary
groove
in the
vertebrate
embryo,
and
constitutes
the
primitive
axial
skeleton
around
which the
centra
of the
vertebrae
and the
posterior
part of the base of the skull are
developed;
the
chorda
dorsalis.
See
Illust.
of
Ectoderm..
Ocellus
::
Ocellus
(n.) A
little
eye; a
minute
simple
eye found in many
invertebrates.
Gizzard
::
Gizzard
(n.) A thick
muscular
stomach
found in many
invertebrate
animals.
Somatopleure
::
Somatopleure
(n.) The
outer,
or
parietal,
one of the two
lamellae
into which the
vertebrate
blastoderm
divides
on
either
side of the
notochord,
and from which the walls of the body and the
amnion
are
developed.
See
Splanchnopleure..
Pharynx
::
Pharynx
(n.) The part of the
alimentary
canal
between
the
cavity
of the mouth and the
esophagus.
It has one or two
external
openings
through
the nose in the
higher
vertebrates,
and
lateral
branchial
openings
in
fishes
and some
amphibias..
Hypoderma
::
Hypoderma
(n.) An inner
cellular
layer which lies
beneath
the
chitinous
cuticle
of
arthropods,
annelids,
and some other
invertebrates..
Amphioxus
::
Amphioxus
(n.) A
fishlike
creature
(Amphioxus
lanceolatus),
two or three
inches
long, found in
temperature
seas; -- also
called
the
lancelet.
Its body is
pointed
at both ends. It is the
lowest
and most
generalized
of the
vertebrates,
having
neither
brain,
skull,
vertebrae,
nor red
blood.
It forms the type of the group
Acrania,
Leptocardia,
etc..
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