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vertebrate

/vur-tuh-brit, -breyt/US // ˈvɜr tə brɪt, -ˌbreɪt //UK // (ˈvɜːtɪˌbreɪt, -brɪt) //

脊椎动物,脊椎动物类,脊椎类,椎体动物

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having vertebrae; having a backbone or spinal column.
    • : belonging or pertaining to the Vertebrata, a subphylum of chordate animals, comprising those having a brain enclosed in a skull or cranium and a segmented spinal column; a major taxonomic group that includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vertebrate animal.

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Examples

  • Indigenous lands in Canada, Brazil and Australia had similar, or slightly higher, levels of vertebrate diversity than non-Indigenous protected areas in the same countries.

  • “I don´t know of papers that have reported on traps built by spiders specifically for capturing vertebrates.”

  • Converting these largely natural habitats, collectively about the size of India, would squeeze more than 17,000 vertebrate species from some of their lands, researchers report December 21 in Nature Sustainability.

  • The researchers analyzed 14,000 vertebrate populations across the world and found that previously accepted worldwide declines in wildlife could be attributed to a few outlier populations.

  • Additionally, the group of biologists from the Natural History Museum in London found that frogs have the biggest eyes of any vertebrate animal in relation to their body size.

  • Then in the Cambrian era, around 570 million years ago, recognizably complex animal life evolved, including vertebrate ancestors.

  • Some 28 percent of the vertebrate species red-listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature live there.

  • It's so typical of everything we've seen of this semi-vertebrate.

  • Two other structures common to most of the vertebrate animals exist in man, though they render him little or no service.

  • It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.

  • Plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.

  • The vertebrate animals deserve more of our attention than other forms of life because man himself is a vertebrate.

  • The illustration here given shows the effect of nicotine upon a fish, one of the vertebrate animals.

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