Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
invertebrate , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no backbone; invertebrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
invertebrate ; without abackbone
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Examples
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Description and figures of four new species of Australian insects, by adam white, Esq. M.E.S. Description of two new invertebrated animals from Australia, by J. E.
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Description and figures of four new species of Australian insects, by adam white, Esq. M.E.S. Description of two new invertebrated animals from Australia, by J. E.
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That the simpler form of organic life should first appear; that remains of invertebrated animals should be first found; then, with these, fish, being the lowest of the vertebrated; next, reptiles and birds, which occupy higher grades; and finally, along with the rest, mammifers, the highest of all -- all this appears natural enough.
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There is, also, the striking fact of an ascertained historical progress of plants and animals in the order of their organization; marine and cellular plants and invertebrated animals first, afterwards higher examples of both.
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Why should not all invertebrated animals have risen into vertebrated?
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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In the last fifty years the number of known fossil remains of invertebrated animals has been trebled or quadrupled.
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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In 1859, there appeared to be a very sharp and clear hiatus between vertebrated and invertebrated animals, not only in their structure, but, what was more important, in their development.
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"The whole nervous system of invertebrated animals, then, may be regarded as ministering entirely to _automatic_ action; and its highest development, as in the class of insects, is coincident with the highest manifestations of the 'instinctive' powers, which, when carefully examined, are found to consist entirely in movements of the excito-motor and sensori-motor kinds.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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