invertebrate

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.

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invertebrate

Noun

any animal without a backbone, such as an insect, worm, or octopus

Adjective

of or designating invertebrates

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	invertebrate - 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" spineless 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"

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invertebrate

noun see see, crustaceans see see, snails, slugs and other gastropods see see, spiders and other arachnids

Translations

invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] n → invertebrado

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invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] n → invertébré m

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invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət] n → wirbelloses Tier nt

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invertebrate [ɪnˈvəːtɪbrɪt] n → invertebrato