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say it: in-VUR-tuh-bruht
invertebrate is a noun and adjective meaning "any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈvɝtəbɹət/ — in-VUR-tuh-bruht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
lacking a backbone or spinal column
“worms are an example of invertebrate animals”
zoology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for invertebrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.