mammal vs vertebrate

vertebrate vs mammal

mammal and vertebrate both are nouns.

mammal is not an adjective while vertebrate is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mammal	Yes	No	No	No
vertebrate	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, vertebrate is a hypernym of mammal; that is, vertebrate is a word with a broader meaning than mammal:

mammal: any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
vertebrate: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

Other hypernyms of mammal include craniate.

mammal (noun)	vertebrate (noun)
any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk	animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

mammal (adjective)	vertebrate (adjective)
	having a backbone or spinal column

Difference between mammal and vertebrate

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