Definition of "craniate" []

• Having a skull or cranium. (adjective)
• An animal or a human having a skull or cranium. (noun)

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• "In other words, each bit of evidence, from the most ancient craniate fossil to the molecular structure of neurons, fits the hypothesis of evolutionary descent."
• "It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba."
• "The exact significance of these roots is a matter for speculation, but it seems possible that they are epiphysial structures remotely comparable with the epiphysial (pineal) complex of the craniate vertebrates."