invertebrates

Cultural  

1. Animals without backbones. (Compare vertebrates.)

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Example Sentences

Invertebrates, however, were preserved using a wider range of liquids, including formalin, buffered solutions, or mixtures that contained additives such as glycerol.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Invertebrates and vertebrates had a common ancestor, which had an innate immune system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This particular picture was highly commended in the Behaviour: Invertebrates category.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2020

Invertebrates, including squid, rely on innate immunity — a simpler, short-lived and ever-present battalion of defensive cells.

From Nature • Jan. 13, 2015

The law of parallelism 083is here applied to single organ-systems, but in later years Serres applied it to whole organisations also, saying that the lower Invertebrates were permanent embryos of the higher.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell