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tracheate
[ trey-kee-eyt, -itor, especially British, truh-kee-it ]
adjective
- (of an arthropod) having tracheae.
noun
- a tracheate arthropod.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tracheate1
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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.”
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If the ancestor of the Insecta was, as seems possible, tracheate, this fact alone would rule out the trilobites.
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Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.
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No tracheate Crustacea are known, but some terrestrial Isopoda develop pulmonary in-sinkings of the integument.
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