Word

invertebrate, n.
(invertebrates)

any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
<noun.animal>

invertebrate

semantic pointers

hypernym

animal, creature, beast, animate being, brute, fauna

hyponym

arthropod zoophyte sponge, poriferan, parazoan coelenterate, cnidarian ctenophore, comb jelly worm woodborer, borer rotifer mollusk, mollusc, shellfish phoronid bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, moss animal ectoproct entoproct Symbion pandora brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell peanut worm, sipunculid echinoderm

part meronym

foot, invertebrate foot peristome

member of this domain (topic)