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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any member of the clade Craniata, having bony skulls.
2. 2
   animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

vertebratevertebrate

Etymology

From cranium.

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