单词 | invertebrata |
释义 | Invertebratan. With plural agreement. Originally (in the system of Lamarck): a major division of the animal kingdom comprising all animals other than the vertebrates. In later use (usually in form invertebrata): a collective term for invertebrates (now rare in technical use).Invertebrates constitute the great majority of all animals and represent a number of unrelated phyla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > [noun] insecta1609 Invertebrata1822 1822 J. Fleming Philos. Zool. II. 607 Radiata... The animals in this extensive division of the Invertebrata invariably reside in the water. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 610/2 Lamarck's primary division of the animal kingdom into Vertebrata and Invertebrata corresponds with that proposed by Aristotle into Enaima and Anaima. 1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) i. 8 It was no longer difficult..to record the succession of crustaceans, mollusks, and other invertebrata. 1896 Lancet 17 Oct. 1068/1 The same general arrangement of the peripheral portion of the nervous system to which I have referred obtains in vertebrata and invertebrata. 1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. xvii. 244 Arthropoda (jointed-foot) are the most highly organized of the invertebrata. 2001 N. J. Lane in R. Catlow & S. Greenfield Cosmic Rays 74 Throughout the Invertebrata..the cells within organisms are nearly always held together by special zonular or belt-like structures called septate junctions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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