invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
Most of the fossils seen in Paleozoic rocks are invertebrate animals lacking backbones, such as corals, mollusks and trilobites.
Samples of sediment, overlying water, pore water, and benthic invertebrate were collected at 13 stations along a typical municipal polluted river in the pearl river Delta.
What's more, the newfound critter's "naughty bits are rather small, " noted study co-author Mark Siddall, curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
embryonic development of invertebrate
Effects of benthic macro-invertebrate on decomposition of Acer buergerianum leaf litter in streams
Now we have recovered invertebrate fossils, such as bivalves, conchostracans, gastropods and ostracodes, in the dinosaurian egg-bearing strata.
Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.
terrestrial invertebrate ecology
The invertebrate takes itsname from the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower.
"Smithers, don't you think it's ironic that your irregular night-time activities are in inverse proportion to your reputation as an expert in the area of invertebrate research?"
They disliked him only because he was invertebrate.
I am a person who has no resistance to the lazy sofa. My mother often calls me an invertebrate.
invertebrate paleobiogeochemistry
Prof Priede said: "These worms are members of a little-known group of animals close to the missing link in evolution between backboned and invertebrate animals."
The building of seashore invertebrate fieldwork multimedia picture and civil database
A functionally similar portion of the invertebrate nervous system.
Any of various invertebrate animals such as a sea anemone or sponge that attach to surfaces and superficially resemble plants.
invertebrate biophysics
After the Precambrian Era, such marine invertebrate animal as trilobites, achiopods, nautiloids, horn corals, honeycomb corals and twiglike bryozoans were abundant during the Palaeozoic Era. The Palaeozoic was also the era when fishes, amphibians and reptiles appeared.