Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not vertebrate; invertebrate.
- To deprive of backbone; hence, to render useless and ineffective.
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Examples
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Together with the discoveries made by Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus, Lewis 'pioneering work has had an enormous impact on our understanding of how evertebrate and vertebrate embryos develop.
Homeotic Gene Complexes are Similar in Flies and Mammals 1995
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In the sea we found not a few algæ and a true littoral evertebrate-fauna, poor in species indeed, something which is completely absent in the Polar seas proper.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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I hope however that the _Vega_ will leave lasting memorials even of this part of her voyage through the contributions of Stuxberg, Nordquist, Kjellman, and Almquist to the evertebrate fauna and the sea-weed and lichen flora of East
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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It is, besides, not the only place in the Kara Sea which might be named from the evertebrate life prevailing there, so unexpectedly abundant.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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This is proved by the abundant evertebrate life which is found at the bottom of the Polar Sea, even where the water all the year round has a temperature of - 2° to - 2. 7° C, and by the remarkable observation made during the wintering at Mussel
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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This circumstance appears to show that certain evertebrate types can endure a much greater variation in the temperature and salinity of the water than the algæ, and that there is a number of species which, though as a rule they live in the strongly cooled layer of salt water at the bottom of the Kara Sea, can bear without injury a considerable diminution in the salinity of the water and an increase of temperature of about
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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a freezing test, and the actual land-evertebrate-fauna of the Polar countries is therefore exceedingly scanty in comparison with that of more southerly regions.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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"The number of the evertebrate land animals amounted to about thirty species.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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