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Insect :: Insect (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion..

Stemmer :: Stemma (n.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.

Pycnogonida :: Pycnogonida (n. pl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda..

Protozoonite :: Protozoonite (n.) One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod..

Anarthropodous :: Anarthropodous (a.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

Sternly :: Sternite (n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.

Antenna :: Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids..

Trilobita :: Trilobita (n. pl.) An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.

Tracheata :: Tracheata (n.pl.) An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae..

Arthropod :: Arthropod (n.) One of the Arthropoda.

Myriapoda :: Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped..

Hypoderma :: Hypoderma (n.) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates..

Crustacea :: Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered..

Sternutation :: Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

Tracheate :: Tracheate (n.) Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.

Urosome :: Urosome (n.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods..

Cephalosome :: Cephalosome (n.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.

Abdomen :: Abdomen (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda..

Prosoma :: Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod..

Arthromere :: Arthromere (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.

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