craniate

cra·ni·ate  (krn-t, -t)

adj.

Having a skull or cranium.

n.

An animal or a human having a skull or cranium.

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Noun

1.

craniate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium vertebrate fetus, foetus - an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal chordate - any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals Amniota - higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development amniote - any member of the Amniota aquatic vertebrate - animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water gnathostome - a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings amphibian - cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form reptile, reptilian - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms mammal, mammalian - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk tetrapod - a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages belly - the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish tail - the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body caudal appendage - tail especially of a mammal posterior to and above the anus costa, rib - any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) costa, rib - any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) blood - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions" ovary - (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone chest, pectus, thorax - the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates pedal extremity, vertebrate foot - the extremity of the limb in vertebrates dactyl, digit - a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates endoskeleton - the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates)