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vertebrate
English
Etymology
From Latin vertebra (“joint”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v??.t?.b?e?t/
Adjective
vertebrate (not comparable)
- Having a backbone.
Derived terms
- megavertebrate
Translations
Noun
vertebrate (plural vertebrates)
- An animal having a backbone.
Antonyms
- invertebrate
Derived terms
- megavertebrate
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:vertebrate
See also
- Vertebrata
Translations
Italian
Noun
vertebrate f
- plural of vertebrato
Anagrams
- brevettare, brevetterà
Latin
Adjective
vertebr?te
- vocative masculine singular of vertebr?tus
vertebrate From the web:
- what vertebrate group is a shark
- what vertebrates are warm blooded
- what vertebrate group is a salamander
- what vertebrates undergo metamorphosis
- what vertebrate group is a elephant
- what vertebrate group is a penguin
- what vertebrates are endotherms
- what vertebrate group is a alligator
epiglottis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin epigl?ttis.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p.???l?t.?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??p.???l?t.?s/
Noun
epiglottis (plural epiglottises or epiglottides)
- (anatomy) A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.
Derived terms
Related terms
- glottis
Translations
References
- “epiglottis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “epiglottis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
See also
- epiglottis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- pig toilets
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?epi?lot?is/, [?e?pi??lo?t??is?]
- Rhymes: -ot?is
- Syllabification: e?pig?lot?tis
Noun
epiglottis
- epiglottis
Declension
Synonyms
- kurkunkansi
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????????? (epigl?ttís, “the valve which covers the larynx”), from ???- (epi-, “upon, over”) +? ???????? (gl?ttís, “glottis, mouth of the windpipe”).
Pronunciation
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.pi??lot.tis/, [?pi??l?t??is]
Noun
epigl?ttis f (genitive epigl?ttidis); third declension (Late Latin)
- (anatomy) The epiglottis.
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? English: epiglottis
- ? Italian: epiglottide
epiglottis From the web:
- what epiglottis do
- what epiglottis mean
- what epiglottis looks like
- what epiglottis does
- what epiglottis covers
- what epiglottis protect
- what's epiglottis in german
- epiglottis what is the treatment
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