land vertebrate

collocation in English

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land
noun
uk
/lænd/us
/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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vertebrate
adjective
uk
/ˈvɜː.tɪ.brət/us
/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.brət/
having a spine (= ...
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(Definition oflandandvertebratefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The skeleton has a reconstructed skull measuring 2.65 m long, which makes it an easy candidate for the longest skull of anylandvertebrate.
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Land snails have many natural predators, including members of all thelandvertebrategroups, two examples being thrushes and hedgehogs.
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It is the earliest known example of an infection in alandvertebrate.
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From this point the amniotes spread across the globe, eventually to become the dominant land vertebrates.
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This function as base of the sensory cells gave the "basilar" membrane its name, and it is again present in all land vertebrates.
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The presence of nitrogenous waste products reveal aquatic ancestry of vertebrates and the nature of visual pigments points out fresh water ancestry to land vertebrates.
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This so-called hair-bundle motility amplifies sound in all non-mammalian land vertebrates.
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These fins evolved into the legs of the first tetrapod land vertebrates, amphibians.
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These twenty-five hotspots contained at least 44 percent of earth's endemics plants and 35 percent of land vertebrates.
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These fins evolved into legs of the first tetrapod land vertebrates, amphibians.
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Fossils of small land vertebrates have been found in the formation, including procolophonid and early archosauromorph reptiles and cynodonts.
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Unlike most other land vertebrates, alligators increase their speed through the distal rather than proximal ends of their limbs.
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Amphibians were the dominant land vertebrates, of which one branch would eventually evolve into reptiles, the first fully terrestrial vertebrates.
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The widespread dispersal of weigeltisaurids may be attributed to their radiation into an arboreal, insectivorous ecological niche previously unoccupied by land vertebrates.
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The fins evolved into the legs of the first tetrapod land vertebrates, amphibians.
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As is the case in most land vertebrates, the first phase involves the growth of a rib primordium that ossifies (ossifies) into a rib bone.
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Special visceral motor neurons, also called "branchial motor neurons", which directly innervate branchial muscles (that motorize the gills in fish and the face and neck in land vertebrates).
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Most species feed on fish caught by diving from flight, but the marsh terns are insect-eaters, and some large terns will supplement their diet with small land vertebrates.
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