craniate

Definitions of craniate

1. noun

   animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
   synonyms: vertebrate

   types:

   fetus, foetus

   an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

   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

   monster, teras

   (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

   abortus

   a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body

   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

   dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird, dickybird

   small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds

   cock

   adult male bird

   hen

   adult female bird

   nester

   a bird that has built (or is building) a nest

   night bird

   any bird associated with night: owl; nightingale; nighthawk; etc

   bird of passage

   any bird that migrates seasonally

   protoavis

   most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs

   Archaeopteryx lithographica, archaeopteryx, archeopteryx

   extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds

   Sinornis

   sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Jurassic period to the Cretaceous period having a keeled breastbone and vestigial tail; found in China; considered possibly the second most primitive of all birds

   Ibero-mesornis

   sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Cretaceous period having a vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds

   archaeornis

   extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing

   flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird

   any of a group of flightless bird species with flat, unkeeled breastbones, such as ostriches, cassowaries, emus, and kiwis

   carinate, carinate bird, flying bird

   birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

   passeriform bird, passerine

   perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless

   nonpasserine bird

   chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes

   bird of prey, raptor, raptorial bird

   any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals

   Hynerpeton bassetti

   fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania

   Ichyostega

   early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland

   caudate, urodele

   amphibians that resemble lizards

   salamander

   any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed

   anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog

   any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

   blindworm, caecilian

   any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions

   labyrinthodont

   an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia

   anapsid, anapsid reptile

   primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

   diapsid, diapsid reptile

   reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

   Diapsida, subclass Diapsida

   used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria

   synapsid, synapsid reptile

   extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull

   gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

   heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

   parrot

   usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds

   cuculiform bird

   birds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos)

   coraciiform bird

   chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes

   apodiform bird

   nonpasserine bird having long wings and weak feet; spends much of its time in flight

   caprimulgiform bird

   long-winged nonpasserine birds

   piciform bird

   any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

   trogon

   forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails

   aquatic bird

   wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water

   female mammal

   animals that nourish their young with milk

   tusker

   any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)

   prototherian

   primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea

   metatherian

   primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas

   eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

   mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

   fossorial mammal

   a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging

   quadruped

   an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

   twitterer

   a bird that twitters

   fish

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

   baby

   an unborn child; a human fetus

   type of:

   chordate

   any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column