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AQUATIC VERTEBRATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
Classified under:
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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