invertebrates

1. Animals without backbones. ( Compare vertebrates .)

Example Sentences

Rossellini enthusiastically acts out various sex acts while costumed as an earthworm, a spider, a bee, and other invertebrates.

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The amphioxus, the bridge between invertebrates and vertebrates, is not hermaphrodite.

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They cared nothing for mammonism, that some philosophical crank has defined to be a physical force that makes men invertebrates.

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In a short paper of 1824 Serres attempted an explanation of the nervous system of Invertebrates.

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In them all classes of seaweeds and marine invertebrates may be found and their habits watched.

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We have another striking example among the invertebrates in the snails (gasteropoda).

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