INVERTEBRATE FOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invertebrate foot mean? 

• INVERTEBRATE FOOT (noun)
  The noun INVERTEBRATE FOOT has 1 sense:

1. any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

  Familiarity information: INVERTEBRATE FOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVERTEBRATE FOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

foot; invertebrate foot

Hypernyms ("invertebrate foot" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "invertebrate foot"):

tube foot (tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration)

Holonyms ("invertebrate foot" is a part of...):

invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)