Home › Words › P › prevertebraprevertebraprevertebra means any of the structures that develop into the vertebrae.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, prevertebra ranks #30,891 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom pre- + vertebra.nounAny of the structures that develop into the vertebraee.g.“Hoxb6 mRNA is detected in neural tube and somites, with an anterior boundary in somites that contribute to the sixth prevertebra.” — 2016 January 23, “Developmental Patterning as a Quantitative Trait: Genetic Modulation of the Hoxb6 Mutant Skeletal Phenotype”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.protovertebra 70% match — One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. vs prevertebra →vertebration 66% match — The formation of vertebrae. vs prevertebra →prevertebral 66% match — Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column vs prevertebra →retrovertebral 63% match — Behind a vertebra vs prevertebra →vertebraless 62% match — Without vertebrae. vs prevertebra →postvertebral 61% match — posterior to the vertebrae vs prevertebra →basivertebral 61% match — Of or pertaining to the base or centrum of a vertebral structure vs prevertebra →vertebrally 61% match — At, within, or related to a vertebra or vertebrae. vs prevertebra →