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vertebrate: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium; having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"

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mammalian collapse: of or relating to the class Mammalia

insectivore collapse: any organism that feeds mainly on insects; small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals

rodent collapse: relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

marsupial collapse: mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried; of or relating to the marsupials; "marsupial animals"

biped collapse: an animal with two feet

quadruped collapse: an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking

scavenger collapse: any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter; a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities

ungulate collapse: any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically; having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals"

varmint collapse: any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote

vermin collapse: any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats; "cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin"; "he examined the child's head for vermin"; "boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin"; an irritating or obnoxious person

herbivore collapse: any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores"

carnivore collapse: any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"; a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb"

ruminant collapse: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments; related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"

canine collapse: any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles; one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars; of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae; of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

invertebrate collapse: any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification; lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals"

reptile collapse: any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms

feline collapse: any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws; of or relating to cats; "feline fur"

cannibal collapse: a person who eats human flesh

primate collapse: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

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