vertebrated

During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights.

The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854

Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

The subject requires careful re-investigation, but if the currently received statements are correct, the appearance of the ‘corpus callosum’ in the placental mammals is the greatest and most sudden modification exhibited by the brain in the whole series of vertebrated animals — it is the greatest leap anywhere made by Nature in her brain work.

Essays 2007

Arrayed in what she calls distinctly “dress,” scented, adorned, displayed, she achieves by artifice a sexual differentiation profounder than that of any other vertebrated animal.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether.

The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as "all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young."

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as "all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young."

Huxley on Whewell on Classification 2005

"Can the organisation of vertebrated animals be referred to one uniform type?"

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

These possess neither brain nor spinal cord; their nerve-centres, instead of being concentrated in a cranium and vertebral canal, are entirely disseminated through the cavities of the trunk, as are the visceral plexuses in vertebrated animals.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

The degree of control is variable, according to the relative predominance of the one or the other; and this predominance varies, not only according to different species of vertebrated animals, but also according to different individuals, in that which presents the most conspicuous capacity for individual variation -- the human species.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett