invertebrate vs entoproct

entoproct vs invertebrate

invertebrate and entoproct both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but entoproct is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, entoproct is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, entoproct 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
entoproct: any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles

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

invertebrate (noun)	entoproct (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles

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

Difference between invertebrate and entoproct

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