vertebrate

English

Etymology

From Latin vertebra (“joint”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹ.tɪ.bɹeɪt/

Adjective

vertebrate (not comparable)

1. Having a backbone.

Derived terms

• megavertebrate

Translations

having a backbone

• Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (ołnašaravor)
• Basque: ornodun
• Breton: mellkeinek (br)
• Bulgarian: гръбначен (grǎbnačen)
• Catalan: vertebrat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 椎骨的 (zh) (zhuīgǔ de)

• Dutch: gewerveld (nl)
• Finnish: selkärankainen (fi)
• French: vertébré (fr)
• Galician: vertebrado (gl) m
• Georgian: ხერხემლიანი (xerxemliani)
• Greek: σπονδυλωτός (el) (spondylotós)
• Hungarian: gerinces (hu)
• Indonesian: bertulang belakang, vertebrata (id)
• Interlingua: vertebrate

• Irish: veirteabrach
• Italian: vertebrato (it)
• Japanese: 脊椎 (ja) (せきつい, sekitsui)
• Kazakh: омыртқалы (omırtqalı)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birrbirredar n

• Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt) m
• Macedonian: ’рбетнички m (’rbetnički)
• Malay: bertulang belakang, vertebrat
• Navajo: bíígháán dahólónígíí
• Polish: kręgowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: vertebrado (pt) m, vertebrada f
• Romanian: vertebrat (ro)
• Russian: позвоно́чный (ru) (pozvonóčnyj)
• Spanish: vertebrado (es)
• Swedish: ryggradsdjur (sv) n
• Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa)

Noun

vertebrate (plural vertebrates)

1. An animal having a backbone.

Antonyms

• invertebrate

Derived terms

• megavertebrate

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:vertebrate

See also

• Vertebrata

Translations

an animal having a backbone

• Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (ołnašaravor)
• Azerbaijani: onurğalı
• Basque: ornodun
• Breton: mellkeineg m
• Bulgarian: гръбначно (bg) n (grǎbnačno)
• Catalan: vertebrat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脊椎動物, 脊椎动物 (zek³ zeoi¹ dung⁶ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 脊椎動物 (zh), 脊椎动物 (zh) (jǐzhuī dòngwù)

• Czech: obratlovec (cs) m
• Danish: hvirveldyr n
• Dutch: gewervelde (nl), werveldier n, vertebraat (nl) m
• Esperanto: vertebrulo
• Finnish: selkärankainen (fi)
• French: vertébré (fr) m
• Galician: vertebrado (gl) m
• German: Wirbeltier (de) n, Vertebrat (often in plural)
• Greek: σπονδυλωτό (el) n (spondylotó)
• Hebrew: חֻלְיְתָן‎ (he) m (ḥulyetán)
• Hindi: कशेरुकी जीव (kaśerukī jīv)
• Hungarian: gerinces (hu)
• Icelandic: hryggleysingjar
• Indonesian: vertebrata (id), hewan vertebrata, hewan bertulang belakang
• Interlingua: vertebrato
• Irish: veirteabrach m
• Italian: vertebrato (it)

• Japanese: 脊椎動物 (ja) (せきついどうぶつ, sekitsui dōbutsu)
• Kazakh: омыртқалы (omırtqalı)
• Khmer: សត្វឆ្អឹងកង (sat che eng kong)
• Korean: 척추동물(脊椎動物) (ko) (cheokchudongmul)
• Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt) m
• Macedonian: ’р́бетник m (’ŕbetnik)
• Malay: haiwan vertebrat, vertebrat
• Malayalam: കശേരുകി (kaśēruki)
• Navajo: naaldeehii bitsʼin dahólónígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: virveldyr (no) n

  Nynorsk: virveldyr n, ryggradsdyr n, ryggbeinsdyr n

• Polish: kręgowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: vertebrado (pt) m
• Romanian: vertebrat (ro) n
• Russian: позвоно́чное (ru) n (pozvonóčnoje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крáљешњак m, кичмењак m

  Roman: králješnjak m, kičmenjak m

• Spanish: vertebrado (es)
• Swedish: ryggradsdjur (sv) n
• Thai: สัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลัง (sàt-mii-grà-dùuk-sǎn-lǎng)
• Turkish: omurgalı (tr)
• Vietnamese: động vật có xương sống (動物𣎏𩩪𦡠)
• Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa)

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Italian

Noun

vertebrate f

1. plural of vertebrato

Anagrams

• brevettare, brevetterà

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Latin

Adjective

vertebrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vertebrātus