Invertebrate Definition

ĭn-vûrtə-brĭt, -brāt
invertebrates
adjective
Not vertebrate; having no backbone, or spinal column.
Webster's New World
Of invertebrates.
Webster's New World
Having no moral backbone; lacking courage, resolution, etc.
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invertebrates
Any animal without a backbone, or spinal column; any animal other than a fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, or mammal.
Webster's New World

An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.

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Singular:
invertebrate
Plural:
invertebrates

Invertebrate Sentence Examples

  • Among the other invertebrate groups there is also a large proportion of endemic species.

  • They feed chiefly on invertebrate animals, and none are poisonous.

  • But Ancillon's reputed liberalism was of too invertebrate a type to survive the trial of actual contact with affairs.

  • Known invertebrate hosts for different species are Hemiclepsis and Piscicola, leeches.

  • It chiefly consists of stratified volcanic tuffs rich in coal, lignite, fossilized plants and an invertebrate fauna.

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