invertebrate vs bryozoan

bryozoan vs invertebrate

invertebrate and bryozoan both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but bryozoan is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
invertebrate	Yes	Yes	No	No
bryozoan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bryozoan is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, bryozoan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than invertebrate:

invertebrate: any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
bryozoan: sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding

Other hyponyms of invertebrate include arthropod, zoophyte, parazoan, poriferan, sponge, cnidarian, coelenterate, comb jelly, ctenophore, worm, borer, woodborer, rotifer, mollusc, mollusk, shellfish, phoronid, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, ectoproct, entoproct, Symbion pandora, brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell, peanut worm, sipunculid, echinoderm.

invertebrate (noun)	bryozoan (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding

invertebrate (adjective)	bryozoan (adjective)
lacking a backbone or spinal column

Difference between invertebrate and bryozoan

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