The word "invertebrate" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to any type of animal that does not have a backbone or spinal column such as worms, jellyfish, crabs, mollusks, and insects. For example, "The biologist studied several different species of invertebrates during her research."
In recalling a brace of 35-year-olds, Brad Haddin – not just as first-choice keeper but vice-captain – and the Middlesex captain, Chris Rogers, who has a single Test appearance on which to draw, John Inverarity and colleagues have tried to put some backbone into an animal that appeared invertebrate.
The report stated the wastewater discharge is potentially impairing the reproduction of sensitive invertebrate and algal species, including a species of water flea and freshwater green algae.
In Hawaii, some new alien invertebrate is reckoned to establish itself roughly every 18 days; left to nature, these isolated oceanic islands might expect that once every 25,000-100,000 years.
Not content with trafficking methamphetamines, the latest mafia to lord it over the Tierra Caliente, the whimsically named "Knights Templar", established a tight grip over its invertebrate society, co-opting local authorities, extorting protection money and raping women.That proved too much for the Tierra Caliente's ranchers and lime-growers.
Occasionally, the poisons waft ashore to fill clinics with coughing patients.In other places, such as Australia, Spain and Namibia, the plague brings a different form of simple, invertebrate life, the jellyfish.
Ian Denholm, head of plant and invertebrate ecology at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural institute in Britain, agrees, and judges that the present system, founded on science-based risk-assessment, is a "rigorous gold standard".The counter-argument is that, gold standard or not, the existing legislation (which was drafted in the late 1980s) is not working.
On this, it turns out, he was right as well.Darwin noticed that when he suspended a stuffed duck's foot in an aquarium, invertebrate larvae attached themselves to it and held on tight for many hours, even if he removed it from the water.
But they are invertebrate.
The native land fauna is wholly invertebrate.
Surface waters were occupied by small dacryoconarids (a shelled marine invertebrate) and by ostracods (mussel shrimp) later in the period.
Life in the early Paleocene oceans took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to recover from the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, but by Late Paleocene times many groups of marine invertebrate animals had diversified considerably, including mollusks and plankton.
