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invertebrate
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in·ver·te·brate  (n-vûrt-brt, -brt)
adj.
1. Lacking a backbone or spinal column; not vertebrate.
2. Of or relating to invertebrates: invertebrate zoology.
n.
An animal, such as an insect or mollusk, that lacks a backbone or spinal column.

invertebrate
Noun
any animal without a backbone, such as an insect, worm, or octopus
Adjective
of or designating invertebrates

invertebrate  (n-vûrt-brt, -brt)
Adjective
Having no backbone or spinal column.
Noun
An animal that has no backbone or spinal column and therefore does not belong to the subphylum Vertebrata of the phylum Chordata. Most animals are invertebrates. Corals, insects, worms, jellyfish, starfish, and snails are invertebrates.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.invertebrateinvertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
zoophyte - any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge
parazoan, poriferan, sponge - primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
cnidarian, coelenterate - radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms
comb jelly, ctenophore - biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
worm - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
woodborer, borer - any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
rotifer - minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
mollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
phoronid - hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom
bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss - sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
ectoproct - sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles
entoproct - any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles
Symbion pandora - only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases
brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell - marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide
peanut worm, sipunculid - small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut
echinoderm - marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies
invertebrate foot, foot - any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
peristome - region around the mouth in various invertebrates
exoskeleton - the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs
Adj.1.invertebrate - lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals"
zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals
vertebrate - having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals"

invertebrate
Translations
invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] ninvertebrado

invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] ninvertébré m

invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] nwirbelloses Tier nt

invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrɪt] ninvertebrato

invertebrate
adj / n invertebrate [inˈvəːtibrət]
(an animal eg a worm or insect) not having a backbone. ongewerweldes لا فقاري، عديم الفِقار безгръбначен bezobratlý hvirvelløst dyr wirbellos ασπόνδυλος invertebrado selgrootu بی مهره selkärangaton invertébré חֲסַר חוּלִיוֹת रीढ विहीन beskralježnjak gerinctelen tak bertulang belakang hrygglaus invertebrato 脊椎のない 척추가 없는; 무척추 동물 bestuburis (gyvūnas) bezmugurkaulnieks; bezmugurkaulains tidak bertulang belakang ongewerveld virvelløs bezkręgowy, bezkręgowiec invertebrado nevertebrat беспозвоночное (животное) bezstavcový brez vretenc; brezvretenčar beskičmenjak invertebrat, ryggradslöst djur ที่ไม่มีกระดูกสันหลัง omurgasız (canlı) 無脊椎的(動物) безхребетний اغیر ریڑھ کی ہڈی والا، غیر فقاری không xương sống 脊椎


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In the photographs, however, the team identified more than two dozen species of sponges, mollusks, sea urchins, and other invertebrates, including a sea snail.
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