Meaning : Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
Synonyms : craniate
Meaning : Having a backbone or spinal column.
Example :
Fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals.
Lacking a backbone or spinal column.
Worms are an example of invertebrate animals.