Crossword-Solution: VERTEBRATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vertebrate | n. | One of the Vertebrata. |
| Vertebrate | a. | Alt. of Vertebrated |
We have 6 clues for the answer “VERTEBRATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Animal with a backbone | 1 answer |
| FISH (class) | 1 answer |
| Having a backbone. | 2 answers |
| Bird or mammal | 3 answers |
| Living Thing | 20 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VERTEBRATE (5)
Now, no vertebrate can progress far with a knife through his spine, and the thag is no exception to the rule.
Hugh Miller’s pets the old red sandstone fishes, that very true vertebrate skull and brain, of which this is a mere mockery.
Out of all these inevitable elements the audience is generated,—a great compound vertebrate, as much like fifty others you have seen as any two mammals of the same species are like each other.
Two thousand head of half-wild Texan cattle are scattered in herds throughout the canyons, living on more or less suspicious terms with grizzly and brown bears, mountain lions, elk, mountain sheep, spotted deer, wolves, lynxes, wild cats, beavers, minks, skunks, chipmunks, eagles, rattlesnakes, and all the other two-legged, four-legged, vertebrate, and invertebrate inhabitants of this lonely and romantic region.
And we have never found them manifested to a very conspicuous extent save in connection with some of those specially organized aggregates which have vertebrate skeletons and mammary glands.
Quotes with VERTEBRATE (3)
The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian’s Doug Erwin, is that we can’t predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors." There will be plenty of surprises. Let’s face it: who would’ve predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn’t exist, no vertebrate biologist would’ve sugg…
[Darwin] gave an answer to the tremendous question that so deeply concerns... What is Man? [He] answered this question to the effect that man is a natural product of the universe;... man is an animal, a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate.... By bringing man into the evolutionary picture, Darwin finally took the last step in our emancipation and finally made our world rational. [Yet] Darwin felt humility and awe that seem to me truly religious. ["Darwin led us into this modern world," 1959, p. 271-272.]
Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2022).