invertebrate

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ver=te=brate

CIDE DICTIONARY

invertebrate, a. 

 Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.  [1913 Webster]

Age of invertebrates. See Age, and Silurian.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

invertebrate, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of an animal) not having a backbone.
2 lacking firmness of character.
--n. an invertebrate animal.

Etymology

mod.L invertebrata (pl.) (as IN-(1), VERTEBRA)

THESAURUS

invertebrate

Milquetoast, abulic, afraid, amphibian, aquatic, baby, big baby, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, chicken, chicken liver, cosmopolite, coward, cowardly, crustacean, crustaceous, crybaby, disorganized, doormat, dull tool, emasculate, faint, fainthearted, feeble, feebleminded, feline, forceless, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, frail, funk, funker, gnawer, gutless wonder, herbivore, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, insectivore, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, meek soul, milksop, molluscan, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, omnivore, pansy, pantywaist, pliable, primate, protozoan, protozoic, pushover, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, sad sack, scaredy-cat, scavenger, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spineless, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, weakling, white feather, white liver