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Invertebrate
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Invertebrate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Invertebrate has 1 sense
- invertebrate(n = noun.animal) Array - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification; Array is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
has particulars: arthropod, zoophyte, parazoan, poriferan, sponge, cnidarian, coelenterate, comb jelly, ctenophore, worm, borer, woodborer, rotifer, mollusc, mollusk, shellfish, phoronid, bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, ectoproct, entoproct, symbion pandora, brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell, peanut worm, sipunculid, echinoderm
has parts: foot, invertebrate foot, peristome
Adjective Invertebrate has 1 sense
- invertebrate(a = adj.all) spineless - lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals" Antonym: vertebrate
CIDE DICTIONARY
Invertebrate, a.
Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Invertebrate, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of an animal) not having a backbone.
2 lacking firmness of character.
--n. an invertebrate animal.
--adj.
1 (of an animal) not having a backbone.
2 lacking firmness of character.
--n. an invertebrate animal.
Etymology
mod.L invertebrata (pl.) (as IN-(1), VERTEBRA)
THESAURUS
Invertebrate
Milquetoast, abulic, afraid, amphibian, aquatic, baby, big baby, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, chicken, chicken liver, cosmopolite, coward, cowardly, crustacean, crustaceous, crybaby, disorganized, doormat, dull tool, emasculate, faint, fainthearted, feeble, feebleminded, feline, forceless, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, frail, funk, funker, gnawer, gutless wonder, herbivore, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, insectivore, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, meek soul, milksop, molluscan, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, omnivore, pansy, pantywaist, pliable, primate, protozoan, protozoic, pushover, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, sad sack, scaredy-cat, scavenger, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spineless, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, weakling, white feather, white liver
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