Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vertebrated; furnished with a backbone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Vertebrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective with a strong
spine
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Examples
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When it comes to vertebrate backboned creatures other than humans, only one—the naked mole rat—has achieved the same grade of social organization.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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She used to say she and Rose Kennedy had much in common; both were iron-backboned New Englanders with nine children, then she'd laugh and go back to washing the laundry.
Christopher Burgess: Grandparents Day -- Celebrate Your Grandchildren Online, Safely! 2010
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If you agree with the conclusion you are as thin-backboned as Gaius Baltar and just as easily manipulated (this is coming NOT-from an atheist BTW).
Battlestar Galactica: Watched The Finale? Still Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers! 2009
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Mammals are then grouped with the classes of other backboned animals, such as reptiles, into a "subphylum," Vertebrata, which is part of the "phylum" Chordata, containing all animals which have a nerve chord at some time in their life cycle.
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa Edward Willett 2007
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Finally, backboned America has a forum besides Dennis Kucinich's website.
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