Vi fant 6 definisjoner av invertebrate på engelsk.
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| invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| arthropod invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | ||
| zoophyte any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge | ||
| parazoan, poriferan, sponge primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | ||
| cnidarian, coelenterate radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | ||
| comb jelly, ctenophore biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb | ||
| worm any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | ||
| woodborer, borer any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | ||
| rotifer minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton | ||
| mollusc, mollusk, shellfish invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||
| phoronid hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom | ||
| bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | ||
| ectoproct sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles | ||
| entoproct any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles | ||
| symbion pandora only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases | ||
| brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | ||
| peanut worm, sipunculid small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut | ||
| echinoderm marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | ||
| invertebrate foot, foot travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot" | ||
| peristome region around the mouth in various invertebrates | ||
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| invertebrate - lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals" | ||
| spineless | ||
| zoological science, zoology the branch of biology that studies animals | ||
