Definitions for invertebrate

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invertebrate in·ver·te·brate

Spelling: [in-vur-tuh-brit, -breyt]

IPA: /ɪnˈvɜr tə brɪt, -ˌbreɪt/

Invertebrate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 662 anagrams from letters in invertebrate (abeeeinrrttv).

Definitions for invertebrate

noun

1. an invertebrate animal.
2. a person who lacks strength of character.

adjective

1. Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
2. without strength of character.

Origin of invertebrate

From the New Latin word invertebrātus, dating back to 1820-30. See in-³, vertebrate

Examples for invertebrate

The mouth in the vertebrates does not agree in character with the invertebrate mouth.

We are invertebrate, and on the evil day we are not able to stand.

They are gone, and we are left—an unprejudiced, but an invertebrate and a flaccid, generation.

I can see you are accustomed to invertebrate admirers who spoil you.

After all, was the fellow quite so invertebrate as he had sometimes seemed?

Let us now inquire what the invertebrate fauna of the Alps teaches us.

It avoids the invertebrate flow of thought that is unaware of structure.

Bipin sank an invertebrate bundle of humanity to the ground.

First invertebrate life, then the lowest forms of vertebrate life.

Bebelle, round as a tortoise, belonged to the genus of invertebrate females.