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Answer for the clue "Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium ", 8 letters:
craniate

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium [syn: vertebrate ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A craniate is a member of Craniata (sometimes Craniota ), a proposed clade of chordate animals that contains the Myxini (hagfish), Petromyzontida (including lampreys ), and Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) as living representatives. As the name suggests, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the clade ''Craniata'' bearing bony skulls.