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Invertebrates are animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.It is a paraphyletic grouping including all animals excluding the chordate subphylum Vertebrata, i.e. vertebrates.
Invertebrate zoology is the subdiscipline of zoology that consists of the study of invertebrates, animals without a backbone (a structure which is found only in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).
An inveterate inventor, Wallace creates elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. Their appearance is similar to the illustrations of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg. Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut".
The relationship between opposites is known as opposition. A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ? The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are ...
Well known at the racetrack, he was an inveterate gambler and had recently made significant losses. [38] The Paxton home for many years was on North Terrace. He was to appeal to the Supreme Court in 1855 against the erection opposite, of the Adelaide Hospital. [39] It was later sold to Henry Ayers and is now famous as "Ayers House"
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There’s heat and emotion there, too, as in the portrait of an attorney who sanctions a cover-up killing in Michael Clayton (2007) – for which she won an Oscar, opposite George Clooney. Swinton ...
Lilla is blonde as Victoria is dark, as prepubescent, passive, good, as Victoria is the opposite...According to the code of ideology, Lilla should triumph over Victoria. The opposite occurs in this work [ 7 ] Thus, Dacre pushes these completely opposite comparisons to further her attempt to totally invert the female-male dichotomy that was ...