invertebrates
[ (in-vur-tuh-bruhts, in-vur-tuh-brayts) ]
Animals without backbones. (Compare vertebrates.)
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How to use invertebrates in a sentence
Rossellini enthusiastically acts out various sex acts while costumed as an earthworm, a spider, a bee, and other invertebrates.
The amphioxus, the bridge between invertebrates and vertebrates, is not hermaphrodite.
The Natural Philosophy of Love | Remy de GourmontThey cared nothing for mammonism, that some philosophical crank has defined to be a physical force that makes men invertebrates.
The Broken Sword | Dennison WorthingtonIn a short paper of 1824 Serres attempted an explanation of the nervous system of invertebrates.
Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) RussellIn them all classes of seaweeds and marine invertebrates may be found and their habits watched.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
We have another striking example among the invertebrates in the snails (gasteropoda).
The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
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