vertebrate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹeɪt/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹeɪt/, /ˈvɜː.tə.bɹeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.tɪ.bɹeɪt/, [ˈvɝ.ɾɪ.bɹeɪt], /ˈvɝ.tə.bɹeɪt/, [ˈvɝ.ɾə.bɹeɪt]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹæɪt/, /ˈvɜː.tə.bɹæɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈvøː.tə.bɹæɪt/

Etymology 1

Adapted borrowing of French vertébré, from Latin vertebrātus (“jointed”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).

Adjective

vertebrate (not comparable)

1. Having a backbone.

   Synonyms: backboned, vertebrated

   Antonym: spineless

3. Of, being, or pertaining to Vertebrata, animals with backbones.

Derived terms

• evertebrate
• hemivertebrate
• nonvertebrate
• prevertebrate
• protovertebrate

Translations

having a backbone

• Arabic: فَقَارِيّ (ar) m (faqāriyy), فَقَارِيَّة (ar) f (faqāriyya)
• Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (oġnašaravor)
• Basque: ornodun
• Belarusian: пазвано́чны (pazvanóčny), хрыбе́тны (xrybjétny)
• Breton: mellkeinek (br)
• Bulgarian: гръбна́чен (grăbnáčen)
• Catalan: vertebrat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 椎骨的 (zh) (zhuīgǔ de)

• Danish: hvirveldyr n
• Dutch: gewerveld (nl)
• Finnish: selkärankainen (fi)
• French: vertébré (fr)
• Galician: vertebrado (gl)
• Georgian: ხერხემლიანი (xerxemliani)
• Greek: σπονδυλωτός (el) (spondylotós)
• Hungarian: gerinces (hu)
• Indonesian: bertulang belakang, vertebrata (id)
• Ingrian: selkäpiikäs
• Interlingua: vertebrate
• Irish: veirteabrach
• Italian: vertebrato (it)
• Japanese: 脊椎 (ja) (せきつい, sekitsui)
• Kazakh: омыртқалы (omırtqalı)
• Korean: 척추(脊椎) (ko) (cheokchu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birrbirredar n

• Latin: vertebrātus
• Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt)
• Macedonian: ’рбетнички (’rbetnički)
• Malay: bertulang belakang, vertebrat (ms)
• Māori: whaituaiwi
• Navajo: bíígháán dahólónígíí
• Polish: kręgowy (pl)
• Portuguese: vertebrado (pt)
• Romanian: vertebrat (ro)
• Russian: позвоно́чный (ru) (pozvonóčnyj)
• Spanish: vertebrado (es)
• Ukrainian: хребе́тний (xrebétnyj)
• Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa)

Etymology 2

From the substantivization of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Vertebrata) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more).

Noun

vertebrate (plural vertebrates)

2. An animal having a backbone: one belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata.

   Antonym: invertebrate

   Hypernyms: animal < creature, critter

   Hyponyms: macrovertebrate, microvertebrate, megavertebrate; see also Thesaurus:vertebrate

   • 2005, “Corporeal”, in Tender Buttons, performed by Broadcast:

     Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate

Derived terms

• evertebrate
• macrovertebrate
• megavertebrate
• microvertebrate
• paleovertebrate
• protovertebrate

Translations

an animal having a backbone

• Arabic: فَقَارِيّ (ar) m (faqāriyy), فَقَارِيَّة (ar) f (faqāriyya)
• Armenian: ողնաշարավոր (hy) (oġnašaravor)
• Azerbaijani: onurğalı
• Basque: ornodun
• Belarusian: пазвано́чнае n (pazvanóčnaje)
• Breton: mellkeineg m
• Bulgarian: гръбна́чно (bg) n (grăbnáčno)
• Catalan: vertebrat (ca)
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 脊椎動物 / 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: wringedier n, rêchbonkedier n

• Galician: vertebrado (gl) m
• German: Wirbeltier (de) n, Vertebrat (often in plural)
• Greek: σπονδυλωτό (el) n (spondylotó)
• Hebrew: חֻלְיְתָן \ חולייתן (he) m (khulyetán)
• 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)
• Kannada: ಕಶೇರುಕ (kn) (kaśēruka)
• Kazakh: омыртқалы (omırtqalı)
• Khmer: សត្វឆ្អឹងកង (sat chʼəng kɑɑng)
• Korean: 척추동물(脊椎動物) (ko) (cheokchudongmul)
• Kyrgyz: омурткалуу (omurtkaluu)
• Latvian: mugurkaulnieks m
• Lithuanian: stuburinis (lt) m
• Macedonian: ’рбетник m (’rbetnik)
• Malay: haiwan vertebrat, vertebrat (ms)
• Malayalam: കശേരുകി (kaśēruki)
• Māori: kararehe whaituaiwi
• 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

  Latin: králješnjak m, kičmenjak m

• Slovak: stavovec m
• Slovene: vretenčar (sl) m
• Spanish: vertebrado (es)
• Swedish: ryggradsdjur (sv) n
• Thai: สัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลัง (sàt-mii-grà-dùuk-sǎn-lǎng)
• Turkish: omurgalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: хребе́тна твари́на f (xrebétna tvarýna)
• Uzbek: umurtqali (uz)
• Vietnamese: động vật có xương sống (動物𣎏𩩪𦡠)
• Walloon: cronzoxhî (wa)
• Welsh: fertebrat (cy) m

Italian

Noun

vertebrate f

1. plural of vertebrato

Anagrams

• brevettare, brevetterà

Latin

Adjective

vertebrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vertebrātus

Spanish

Verb

vertebrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of vertebrar combined with te