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microinvertebrate

noun

Etymology

From micro- + invertebrate, perhaps by analogy with microorganism.

  1. derived from vertebrātus
  2. prefixed as invertebrate — “in-#Etymology_3 + vertebrate”
  3. prefixed as microinvertebrate — “micro + invertebrate”

Definitions

  1. An invertebrate of microscopic size.

The neighborhood

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