invertebrate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal without vertebrae (i.e., without a backbone).
    — 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.
  2. A spineless person; a coward. informal
形容词 adj.
  1. Without a backbone: without vertebrae. not-comparable
    — 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?
  2. Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

invertebrates plural

词汇关系

近义词
invertebrate
反义词
vertebrate
上位词
animal
下位词
earthworm leech polychaete arthropod insect arachnid crustacean jellyfish coral sea anemone hydra sea star sea urchin sea cucumber mollusc squid snail bivalve sponge
衍生词
macroinvertebrate microinvertebrate
相关词
inveterate

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English vertebrate
English invertebrate
From in- + vertebrate.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English vertebrate
English invertebrate
From in- + vertebrate.
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