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AQUATIC VERTEBRATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("aquatic vertebrate" is a kind of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Meronyms (parts of "aquatic vertebrate"):

flipper (the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquatic vertebrate"):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

placoderm (fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws)

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

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