| NOUN | animal | aquatic vertebrate | animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water |
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| Meaning | animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water. | |
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| Parts | flipper | The flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming |
| Narrower | fish | Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills |
| jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | |
| placoderm | Fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body | |
| Broader | vertebrate, craniate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
| Spanish | vertebrado acuático | |
| Catalan | vertebrat aquàtic | |
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