an invertebrate Congress that blithely went along with the President's ill-conceived plan
Recent Examples on the WebThere's no doubt that Blean Woods is already humming with invertebrate life. Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022 Surveying invertebrate life is freelance ecologist and entomologist Graeme Lyons. Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022 Warmer, more acidic waters may also produce less of the invertebrate prey the whales prefer. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 Thermal cameras or x-ray technology used to detect vertebrates doesn’t work for most invertebrate species. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022 Over four pounds of that rock went toward studying invertebrate life, exposing insects to the lunar particles by mixing it with their food. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022 When the law was updated in 1984 under Gov. George Deukmejian, the reference to invertebrates was removed, but the new law protected the Trinity bristle snail, an invertebrate mollusk that lives on land. Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2022 Octopuses are a specific type of invertebrate called cephalopods. Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022 In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the invertebrate keeper, Emma Califf, lifts up a rock in a plastic box.New York Times, 3 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
New Latin invertebratus, from Latin in- + New Latin vertebratus vertebrate