English noun: invertebrate |
1. | invertebrate (animal) any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification |
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| Broader (hypernym) | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | arthropod, borer, brachiopod, bryozoan, cnidarian, coelenterate, comb jelly, ctenophore, echinoderm, ectoproct, entoproct, lamp shell, lampshell, mollusc, mollusk, moss animal, parazoan, peanut worm, phoronid, polyzoan, poriferan, rotifer, sea mat, sea moss, shellfish, sipunculid, sponge, Symbion pandora, woodborer, worm, zoophyte |
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| Part holonym | foot, invertebrate foot, peristome |
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| Domain category members | exoskeleton |
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