Invertebrate: adj. and name (word coming from in- and from vertebrate).
“Vertebrate” qualifies a being that has no vertebrae (*), nor a skeleton.
Noun: Invertebrates: all animals that do not have a vertebral column, which is the support of the trunk in vertebrates, and especially in humans.
The snail is an invertebrate.
(*) The vertebrae are each of the bones separated from each other by the intervertebral discs, which form the vertebral column.
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