American English pronunciation
How to pronounce invertebrates
IPA transcription: [,ɪn'vɚtəbɹəts]
Pronunciation variants: [,ɪn'vɚtəbɹəts][,ɪn'vɚtəb,ɹeɪts]
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Noun
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any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
Usage examples
- It provides a habitat for many other invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.
- They are specialist predators of small invertebrates such as collembola.
- They are invertebrates, meaning that they lack a spine.
- They mainly eat arthropods and other invertebrates.
- These day geckos fed on various insects and other invertebrates.
- The animal portion of their diet consists of invertebrates, eggs, and carrion.
- They feed on grasses, leaves, roots and seeds, also eating small invertebrates.
- Food is small invertebrates picked off the mud.
- Significant members of the Solnhofen paleofauna include "Archaeopteryx", pterosaurs, and marine invertebrates.
- It feeds on carrion, offal, bird eggs, nestlings, marine invertebrates and other natural food.