invertebrate
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- n any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
- a lacking a backbone or spinal column
worms are an example of invertebrate animals
- Their heads are fissured, their torsos are invertebrate; their limbs, stretched and exploded, truly deserve to be called extremities because with Bacon the body is always in .
- So in a triptych like Three Studies for a Crucifixion from 1962, with its invertebrate lovers grappling in the center panel and its butchered carcass in the right, the body is the .
- Sections of that invertebrate mother ship are blown to land by unpredictable shifting winds that can turn coastal water into jellyfish marshes overnight and then leave the .