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Amphioxus
noun · 78% connection
A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its bod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Batrachoid
adjective · 78% connection
Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous do…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Bos
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Camarasaurus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Cattle
n. pl. · 78% connection
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Cervical
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Cervix
noun · 78% connection
the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Costiferous
adjective · 78% connection
Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Coupling
noun · 78% connection
A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Cranium
noun · 78% connection
The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the br…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Dermoneural
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Dorsal
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Dorsal vertebra
noun · 78% connection
one of 12 vertebrae in the human vertebral column; thoracic vertebrae extend from the seventh cervical vertebra down to the first lumb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Hedgehog
noun · 78% connection
A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Heteracanth
adjective · 78% connection
Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Homacanth
adjective · 78% connection
Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Hyomandibular
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
Hyostylic
adjective · 78% connection
Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated wit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, ligament, back, neck, quadrupeds.
