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vertebrado

Spanish, noun/beɾteˈbɾado/

vertebrado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “vertebrate (an animal having a backbone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of vertebrar.

What does vertebrado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    vertebrate (having a backbone)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevertebrate (an animal having a backbone)

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of vertebrar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Dotado de una estructura articulada mediante vértebras. 2. Dicho de un animal, perteneciente a un subfilo de los cordados, caracterizado por la presencia de una columna vertebral encerrando la médula espinal, un sistema nervioso bien centralizado y una pronunciada cefalización de la función nerviosa y sensorial. Peces, anfibios, reptiles, Aves y mamíferos pertenecen a este subfilo, que comprende la inmensa mayoría de las formas de vida que los humanos ide

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of vertebrado

  • vertebrada feminine
  • vertebrados masculine plural
  • vertebradas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce vertebrado?

  • /beɾteˈbɾado/
  • [beɾ.t̪eˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞o]
  • [beɾt̪eˈβ̞ɾað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vertebrado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is vertebrado in Spanish?

vertebrado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).