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/ɪnvˈɜːtɪbɹˌeɪt/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈvɝtəˌbɹeɪt, ˌɪnˈvɝtəbɹət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɝtəˌbɹeɪt, ˌɪnˈvɝtəbɹət/ ]
NOUN
- any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking a backbone or spinal column
worms are an example of invertebrate animals
How To Use invertebrate In A Sentence
- A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
- In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans.
- There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
- Melanic forms of invertebrates might have advantages in thermoregulation and UV-B radiation protection [174]. Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
- Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
- This is probably one of the most archaic sensory receptors, which is present even in invertebrates such as the roundworm, leech or aplysia Time-surface temperature thresholds for thermal injury of Human skin. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons.
- Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
- The distribution, water chemistry, ecology, hydrology, limnology, and invertebrate and amphibian fauna of vernal ponds have been investigated.
- Their diet consists primarily of parasitic copepods and other invertebrates that are taken from the mouth and gill openings of larger fish.