craniate

• Существительное, обозначающее животных, имеющих костный или хрящевой скелет с сегментированным позвоночным позвоночным столбом и большим мозгом, заключённым в череп.

A noun referring to animals that possess a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.

1. Vertebrate animalC2formalscientific

   Any animal that possesses a skull or cranium, including vertebrates such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

   Позвоночное животное

   • Craniates are distinguished from other chordates by the presence of a bony or cartilaginous skull.
   • The evolution of the cranium allowed for the development of a larger brain in craniates.
   • All craniates have a segmented spinal column that protects the nerve cord.

   Синонимыvertebrate