Invertebrate

//ɪnˈvəːtɪbrət//

Synonyms for "invertebrate" (217 found)

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Adjective(1 words)
spineless

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Translations

97 translations across 57 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • invertebraat noun (animal without backbone)

Albanian

1 entries
  • invertebrore noun (animal without backbone)

Arabic

1 entries
  • لَا فَقَارِيّ noun (animal without backbone)

Armenian

2 entries
  • անողնաշար adj (lacking backbone)
  • անողնաշար noun (animal without backbone)

Asturian

1 entries
  • invertebráu adj (lacking backbone)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • onurğasız noun (animal without backbone)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • беспазвано́чны adj (lacking backbone)
  • бесхрыбе́тны adj (lacking backbone)
  • беспазвано́чнае noun (animal without backbone)

Breton

1 entries
  • divellkeineg noun (animal without backbone)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • безгръбна́чен adj (lacking backbone)
  • безгръбна́чно noun (animal without backbone)
  • безгръбна́чно живо́тно noun (animal without backbone)

Catalan

2 entries
  • invertebrat adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrat noun (animal without backbone)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 無脊椎的 /无脊椎的 adj (lacking backbone)
  • 無脊椎動物 /无脊椎动物 noun (animal without backbone)

Czech

3 entries
  • bezobratlý adj (lacking backbone)
  • bezpáteřný adj (lacking backbone)
  • bezobratlý noun (animal without backbone)

Dutch

2 entries
  • ongewerveld adj (lacking backbone)
  • ongewervelde noun (animal without backbone)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • malvertebrulo noun (animal without backbone)
  • senvertebrulo noun (animal without backbone)

Finnish

2 entries
  • selkärangaton adj (lacking backbone)
  • selkärangaton noun (animal without backbone)

French

2 entries
  • invertébré adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertébré noun (animal without backbone)

Galician

2 entries
  • invertebrado adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrado noun (animal without backbone)

Georgian

1 entries
  • უხერხემლო noun (animal without backbone)

German

3 entries
  • wirbellos adj (lacking backbone)
  • Invertebrat noun (animal without backbone)
  • Wirbelloses noun (animal without backbone)

Greek

1 entries
  • ασπόνδυλο noun (animal without backbone)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • gerinctelen adj (lacking backbone)
  • gerinctelen noun (animal without backbone)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • hryggleysingi noun (animal without backbone)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • invertebrata adj (lacking backbone)

Irish

2 entries
  • inveirteabrach adj (lacking backbone)
  • inveirteabrach noun (animal without backbone)

Italian

2 entries
  • invertebrato adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrato noun (animal without backbone)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 無脊椎 adj (lacking backbone)
  • 無脊椎動物 noun (animal without backbone)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಅಕಶೇರುಕ noun (animal without backbone)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • омыртқасыз noun (animal without backbone)

Khmer

1 entries
  • សត្វឥតឆ្អឹងកង noun (animal without backbone)

Korean

2 entries
  • 무척추 adj (lacking backbone)
  • 무척추동물 noun (animal without backbone)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • омурткасыз noun (animal without backbone)

Lao

1 entries
  • ສັດບໍ່ມີກະດູກສັນຫລັງ noun (animal without backbone)

Latin

2 entries
  • invertebrātus adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrātum noun (animal without backbone)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • bestuburis noun (animal without backbone)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • безрбетен adj (lacking backbone)
  • безрбетник noun (animal without backbone)

Malay

4 entries
  • invertebrat adj (lacking backbone)
  • tidak bertulang belakang adj (lacking backbone)
  • haiwan invertebrat noun (animal without backbone)
  • invertebrat noun (animal without backbone)

Māori

2 entries
  • tuaiwikore adj (lacking backbone)
  • hātaretare noun (animal without backbone)

Navajo

2 entries
  • bíígháán ádaadinígíí adj (lacking backbone)
  • chʼosh bíígháán ádaadinígíí noun (animal without backbone)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • bêbirrbirredar adj (lacking backbone)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • virvelløs adj (lacking backbone)

Occitan

1 entries
  • invertebrat adj (lacking backbone)

Polish

2 entries
  • bezkręgowy adj (lacking backbone)
  • bezkręgowiec noun (animal without backbone)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • invertebrado adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrado noun (animal without backbone)

Romanian

3 entries
  • nevertebrat adj (lacking backbone)
  • nevertebrat noun (animal without backbone)
  • nevertebrată noun (animal without backbone)

Russian

3 entries
  • беспозвоно́чный adj (lacking backbone)
  • бесхребе́тный adj (lacking backbone)
  • беспозвоно́чное noun (animal without backbone)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • beskičmen noun (animal without backbone)
  • beskičmenjak noun (animal without backbone)
  • beskralješnjak noun (animal without backbone)

Slovak

1 entries
  • bezstavovec noun (animal without backbone)

Slovene

1 entries
  • nevretenčar noun (animal without backbone)

Spanish

2 entries
  • invertebrado adj (lacking backbone)
  • invertebrado noun (animal without backbone)

Swahili

1 entries
  • wasouti noun (animal without backbone)

Swedish

2 entries
  • ryggradslös adj (lacking backbone)
  • ryggradslöst djur noun (animal without backbone)

Tajik

1 entries
  • бемӯҳра noun (animal without backbone)

Thai

1 entries
  • สัตว์ไม่มีกระดูกสันหลัง noun (animal without backbone)

Turkish

1 entries
  • omurgasız noun (animal without backbone)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • безхребе́тний adj (lacking backbone)
  • безхребе́тна твари́на noun (animal without backbone)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • umurtqasiz noun (animal without backbone)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • không xương sống adj (lacking backbone)
  • động vật không xương sống noun (animal without backbone)

Sample sentences

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Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.

Source: wiktionary

Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?

Source: wiktionary

This week Fifa’s morally invertebrate president, Gianni Infantino, gave a speech that attempted to paint his World Cup as a marker of a grand struggle between the bright new world and corrupt old Europe, with Infantino himself the Mandela at its centre.

Source: wiktionary

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