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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Invertebrate

In-vĕr'te-brate, n.

noun

n. (Zoöl.) An animal having no vertebral column.

In-věr'te-brate or In-věr'te-brā'ted, a.

adjective

a. [Prefix in, not, and vertebrate, vertebrated, It. invertebrato, Fr. invertébré.] (Zoöl.) Destitute of a back-bone; having no vertebræ; invertebral. See VERTEBRATED.