invertebrate vs ctenophore

ctenophore vs invertebrate

invertebrate and ctenophore both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but ctenophore is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, ctenophore is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, ctenophore 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
ctenophore: biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb

Other hyponyms of invertebrate include arthropod, zoophyte, parazoan, poriferan, sponge, cnidarian, coelenterate, comb jelly, 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)	ctenophore (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb

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

Difference between invertebrate and ctenophore

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