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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of numerous animals having a cranium of bone or cartilage, including all vertebrates and the hagfishes.
  • adjective Having a cranium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a skull or cranium, as do all vertebrates above the lampreys.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any member of the clade Craniata bearing bony skulls.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

Etymologies

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From cranium.

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