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Definition of Invertebrates
1. invertebrate [n] - See also: invertebrate
Medical Definition of Invertebrates
1. Animals that have no spinal column. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invertebrates
Literary usage of Invertebrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"Synopses of North American invertebrates, XIV. Amer. Nat., Vol. 3S. ... Text-Book
of the Embryology of invertebrates. Translation by Mark & Woodworth. ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"THE RELATIONS BETWEEN VERTEBRATES AND invertebrates A problem that has commanded
the attention of many eminent scientists has been to trace the ancestry of ..."
3. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL FORM CHAPTER IV THE ORIGINS OF ANIMAL LIFE AND EVOLUTION
OF THE invertebrates Evolution of single-celled animals or Protozoa. ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"SILURIAN SYSTEM : AGE OF invertebrates. The Rock-System.—The rocks of this age
have been carefully studied in England, by Sedgwick and Murchison; ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The geology will be treated of by Mr. Hatcher, the Tertiary invertebrates by Dr.
... invertebrates ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"One tray of invertebrates. RC McGREGOR. One Spongilla(f) from California. ...
Four bottles of invertebrates from New Jersey. LEWIS WOOLMAN. ..."