Wondering how to use Vertebrate in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as invertebrate or chordate.
Vertebrate meaning
- Having a backbone.
- Of, being, or pertaining to Vertebrata, animals with backbones.
Synonyms of Vertebrate
Using Vertebrate
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a backbone. | Of, being, or pertaining to Vertebrata, animals with backbones.
- Useful related words include: invertebrate, craniate, chordate.
- In the example corpus, vertebrate often appears in combinations such as: the vertebrate, of vertebrate, vertebrate species.
Context around Vertebrate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vertebrate
- In this selection, "vertebrate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, university, first, diverse, paleontology, species and pest stand out and add context to how "vertebrate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 903 monitored vertebrate species in and agriculture s vertebrate pest control. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vertebrate" sits close to words such as adversarial, archibald and ashraf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vertebrate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For information, or to share vertebrate siting, Christine Dalton can be contacted at christine. (14 words)
But as of Friday evening, the Vertebrate Pest Animal Management Policy was not among them. (15 words)
Scientists discovered the second-smallest vertebrate known on Earth: a “toadlet,” smaller than some ant species. (16 words)
That the vertebrate still fares as bad or worse when two strains of the parasite are present could be bad news for people in Africa, the Middle East and the tropics, where schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million people. (39 words)
The tetrapods can be singled out as consisting of the first vertebrate with such digits homologous to those of Homo sapiens together with all descendants of this vertebrate (an apomorphy-based phylogenetic definition ). (33 words)
This makes the catfish order the second or third most diverse vertebrate order; in fact, 1 out of every 20 vertebrate species is a catfish. citation The taxonomy of catfish is quickly changing. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Abdullah Gohar is the lab manager of Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center and a master’s student in comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology.
The tetrapods can be singled out as consisting of the first vertebrate with such digits homologous to those of Homo sapiens together with all descendants of this vertebrate (an apomorphy-based phylogenetic definition ).
This makes the catfish order the second or third most diverse vertebrate order; in fact, 1 out of every 20 vertebrate species is a catfish. citation The taxonomy of catfish is quickly changing.
But as of Friday evening, the Vertebrate Pest Animal Management Policy was not among them.
Just two other vertebrate groups have achieved powered flight - the flying reptiles called pterosaurs and birds, both appearing way before bats.
The Apennine fossils force scientists to reconsider which factors might have triggered the vertebrate colonization of the deep sea.
The newly discovered fossils may represent the first major step in the origins of modern deep-sea vertebrate biodiversity.
If you don’t know about the Greenland shark, it’s the longest-lived vertebrate, according to LiveScience.
Scientists discovered the second-smallest vertebrate known on Earth: a “toadlet,” smaller than some ant species.
Sperm have poorer DNA repair machinery than eggs, causing males to pass on more mutations to the next generation than females with advancing age, a pattern observed across vertebrate animals.
The analysis anticipates revenue loss of an unknown amount to the department, as well as to the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Vertebrate Pest Control Research Advisory Committee.
It took the keen eye of Susan Evans, a professor of vertebrate morphology and paleontology at University College London, to recognize this particular "lizard" was actually a misidentified albie.
Two species of vertebrate, animals with a backbone, have gone extinct every year, on average, for the past century.
Christian Damsgaard et al, Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.
Dr Rogers added: 'While our work adds weight to the idea that Tully is not a vertebrate, it doesn’t clearly identify it as an invertebrate either.
Olson, who 24 hours prior picked up his first collegiate point via an assist, had missed three of the Bulldogs first four games with a cracked rib and chipped vertebrate.
They were charged with felony torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal and misdemeanor animal cruelty after an animal rights group released undercover video showing calves being thrown, kicked and otherwise abused by workers.
For information, or to share vertebrate siting, Christine Dalton can be contacted at christine.
Like almost everything else in 2018, the Living Planet Report Canada from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was bleak: of 903 monitored vertebrate species in the country, half are in decline.
That the vertebrate still fares as bad or worse when two strains of the parasite are present could be bad news for people in Africa, the Middle East and the tropics, where schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million people.
Common combinations with vertebrate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the vertebrate 22×
- of vertebrate 16×
- vertebrate species 6×
- and vertebrate 5×
- vertebrate animals 5×
- vertebrate body 5×
- vertebrate embryos 5×
- vertebrate host 4×
- in vertebrate 4×
- vertebrate paleontology 3×