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tracheate

[ trey-kee-eyt, -itor, especially British, truh-kee-it ]

adjective

  1. (of an arthropod) having tracheae.


noun

  1. a tracheate arthropod.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tracheate1

1875–80; < New Latin Tracheata name of the class, noun use of neuter plural of tracheātus having tracheae. See trachea, -ate 1
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Example Sentences

The present tracheal respiration of the Tracheata developed at a later period out of respiration through the “tracheate gills.”

If the ancestor of the Insecta was, as seems possible, tracheate, this fact alone would rule out the trilobites.

Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.

No tracheate Crustacea are known, but some terrestrial Isopoda develop pulmonary in-sinkings of the integument.

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