invertebrate

英 [ɪnˈvɜːtɪbrət]

美 [ɪnˈvɜːrtɪbrət]

n.  无脊椎动物

复数：invertebrates　

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BNC.17362 / COCA.18039

牛津词典

noun

• 无脊椎动物
  any animal with no backbone , for example a worm

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 无脊椎动物
  Aninvertebrateis a creature that does not have a spine, for example an insect, a worm, or an octopus.
  1. Invertebrateis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...invertebrate creatures.
     无脊椎动物

英英释义

noun

• any animal lacking a backbone or notochord

adj

• lacking a backbone or spinal column
  1. worms are an example of invertebrate animals
  Synonym:spineless

双语例句

• Moles are carnivores feeding almost exclusively small invertebrate animals living underground such as earthworms and the larvae of beetles and flies.
  鼹鼠是食肉动物，几乎能吃所有生活在地下的小无脊椎动物，比如蚯蚓、甲虫和蝇类的幼虫。
• The term may also denote the limb or the locomotive or prehensile organ of an invertebrate ( e.g., the ray of a starfish or the tentacle of an octopus).
  arm一词亦指无脊椎动物的附肢或运动器官，如海星的腕、章鱼的触手和腕足纲动物的腕足。
• The terminal segment of an invertebrate's limb. The Effects of Classification Systems on the Selection of Thoracic Curve Fusion and Lowest Instrumented Vertebrae in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
  无脊椎动物肢体的末端不同分型系统对AIS单胸弯融合和下端融合椎选择的影响
• Effect of transgenic Bt cotton on soil invertebrate community structure
  转Bt基因棉对土壤无脊椎动物群落结构的影响
• Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin.
  非脊椎动物，特征是有连接的副肢和由甲壳质外骨骼分节的身体。
• In vertebrate and invertebrate, POU proteins take part in early embryogenesis, exert much regulation in cell lineage differentiation and neural development.
  在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中，POU蛋白参与胚胎发生的早期过程，在细胞谱系的分化和神经发育中起调控作用。
• General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
  任何昆虫、类爬虫或爬行的无脊椎动物的泛称。
• We human share up to80% of our DNA with our invertebrate cousins, normally to be found feeding in rubbish tips, making them a reasonable subject for space experiments.
  人类与我们的无脊椎动物近亲分享80%的DNA，这些无脊椎动物通常以废物为食，这使它们成为太空实验的合理研究对象。
• But this is the first time that the behavior has been observed in an invertebrate, according to an article co-authored by Finn and published in the US-based journal Current Biology.
  但芬恩和他人共同著作、发表在美国期刊《现代生物学》上的文章指出，这是科学家第一次在无脊椎动物身上观察到这种行为。
• AChE coding sequences have been cloned so far from a range of evolutionarily diverse vertebrate and invertebrate species.
  人们已经从数十种脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中克隆了AChE的编码序列。