invertebrate vs parazoan

parazoan vs invertebrate

invertebrate and parazoan both are nouns.

invertebrate is an adjective but parazoan is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, parazoan is a hyponym of invertebrate; that is, parazoan 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
parazoan: primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

Other hyponyms of invertebrate include arthropod, zoophyte, poriferan, sponge, cnidarian, 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)	parazoan (noun)
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification	primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

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

Difference between invertebrate and parazoan

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