invertebrate vs cnidarian

cnidarian vs invertebrate

invertebrate and cnidarian both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but cnidarian is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, cnidarian is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, cnidarian 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
cnidarian: radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms

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

invertebrate (noun)	cnidarian (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms

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

Difference between invertebrate and cnidarian

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