craniate

Definition of Craniate in English :

1. craniate, vertebrate

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Craniate

adjective

1.

having a skull or cranium

adjective, noun

2. another word for vertebrate

adjective

1.

having a skull or cranium, as fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals

noun

2.

a craniate animal

n.

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

adj.

Having a cranium.