Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking a backbone or spinal column; not vertebrate.
- adj. Of or relating to invertebrates: invertebrate zoology.
- n. An animal, such as an insect or mollusk, that lacks a backbone or spinal column.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not vertebrate; having no backbone; specifically, of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. Also invertebral, invertebrated.
- Figuratively, flaccid, as if from lack of a backbone; wanting strength, firmness, or consistency; weak; nerveless.
- n. An invertebrated animal; any one of the Invertebrata.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
- adj. lacking a backbone or spinal column
Examples
“Nosema fungus that researchers had previously suspected, and a DNA-virus called invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV).”
“When the Army software, owned by DHS, was turned on the bee remains, it detected not only the fungus, but also a virus known as the invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV).”
“We'll leave it up to France's budding etymologist to decide whether his maneuvering should be labeled "invertebrate" or "spineless.”
“To use Bruce Fein's word, let's don't be "invertebrate" about it.”
“Puget Sound is home to the world's largest octopus, the giant Pacific octopus, which is also the world's largest invertebrate, meaning it has no bones.”
“Such ancient grassland might have 30 species of plant in a single square metre and innumerable invertebrate animals which have supported such remarkable birds as the stone curlew and many skylarks.”
“The endemic fauna includes 115 indigenous, 24 introduced vertebrate, and 2,000 invertebrate species.”
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
“All these defences have kept this specimen completely untouched by summer's relentless vegetarian armies, invertebrate and mammalian, that might otherwise want to take the plant's nutrients.”
“The pilings are covered with plumose anemones, invertebrate filter feeders.”
“This invertebrate response is of a piece with this administration's entire worldview.”
The Huffington Post: Ken Blackwell: Terrorists With Union Cards?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘invertebrate’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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Wordsthatcouldbeusedinmyth
bicephalous, invertebrate, amaranthine, befuddle, browbeat, expurgation, bigoted, groan, telic, untoward, mummer, formalist and 17 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Coward!
caitiff, craven, cur, dastard, funk, malingerer, poltroon, recreant, Scaramouch, invertebrate, jellyfish, fraidy cat and 53 more...
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Rich Habitats: A Study of Invertebrates
Vocabulary for studying invertebrates at Bartram's Garden
adaptation, biodiversity, cladistics, classification, decomposer, detritus, exoskeleton, habitat, invertebrate, metamorphosis, organism, predator and 16 more...
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