craniate, a. and n. Zool.
(ˈkreɪnɪət)
[ad. mod.L. crāniātus: see Craniata.]
A. adj. Having a skull or cranium. B. n. A member of the Craniata.
| 1879 A. S. Packard Zool. viii. 401 The Vertebrates are divided into the skulless or acraniate..and the skulled or craniate (Craniata). 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 183/2 The fact that the nerve tube is dorsal..suggests that the Craniates' ancestor had a dorsal median nerve. 1900 G. C. Bourne Compar. Anat. I. 24 The craniate vertebrates. 1909 E. S. Goodrich in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. IX. i. 1 The great gap which separates the lowest known Craniate from Amphioxus. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 590/2 The most primitive extant craniates, the cyclostomes.., possess no jaws. Ibid. 591/1 The primitive craniate condition. |