Synonym: spineless. Similar words: vertebrate, vertebral column, inverted, invert, converted, converter, celebrate, celebrated. Meaning: [ɪn'vɜrtɪbrət ,-breɪt /-'vɜːt-] n. any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification. adj. lacking a backbone or spinal column.
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1. Like an invertebrate, she writhed on the floor, trapped in the ruin of her own body.
2. There were major changes within the various invertebrate types, although these seldom caught the headlines.
3. Even previously committed invertebrate labs like Alkon's Hermissenda group were making the switch.
4. Outside you could see invertebrate waves expiring on Rocky Point.
5. And Evans is hardly a slacker in the invertebrate department himself.
6. Their food consists of virtually any invertebrate small enough to swallow, including grasshoppers, spiders and caterpillars.
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7. In contrast to boiling it alive, freezing an invertebrate to death is a humane thing to do.
8. They disliked him only because he was invertebrate.
9. Worms are an example of invertebrate animals.
10. 'A spanner,'said Mrs Parsons , immediately becoming invertebrate.
11. On the aquaticLodge against cloudy sky. invertebrate search we captured such diverse creatures as crayfish, dragonfly nymphs, planarian worms, and snail eggs.
12. Now we have recovered invertebrate fossils, such as bivalves, conchostracans, gastropods and ostracodes, in the dinosaurian egg-bearing strata.
13. Half of all invertebrate species live in tropical rain forests.
14. Amphioxus represents the transitional type of animals from invertebrate to vertebrate.
15. Much of the current research on biological neural networks involves the study of invertebrate animals, such as sea slugs or starfish.
16. So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
17. But just below the layer of gently folded limestones that contains the earliest of the invertebrate fossils, the strata change radically.
18. If I were you I'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium.
19. Amateur experimental breeding of Cleaner Shrimps has already been mentioned as a good example of a mobile invertebrate which could be chosen.
20. You might imagine that the Government doesn't want to disturb this particular can of invertebrate, limbless burrowing creatures.
21. Prof Priede said: "These worms are members of a little-known group of animals close to the missing link in evolution between backboned and invertebrate animals.
22. The origin of vertebrates has always been a core question in evolutionary biology. It is well accepted that vertebrates and invertebrate chordate derived from a common ancestor.
23. Currently accessible for searching are the recent mollusk files, the invertebrate paleontology files, the rotifer collection and Gary Rosenbergs molluscan species database etc.
24. Eyespot (stigma) A light-sensitive structure of certain protoctists and invertebrate animals.
25. Matt Shardlow , chief executive of Buglife , the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, said:'British wildlife is in crisis.
26. The malacology collection currently has more than 450,000 computerized records and invertebrate paleontology has 38,000.
27. Increasing salinity caused by the evaporation resulted in the extermination of scores of invertebrate species.
28. The heart is one of first structures to form during organogenesis invertebrate .
29. The book is the first book on the neurobiology, and takes a broad, conceptual, comparative approach, introducing the principles of vertebrate and invertebrate neural function in all sensory systems.
30. No one has suggested an amphibian, a bird, or any type of invertebrate.
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