Definition of arthropod

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Arthropod (n.) One of the Arthropoda.

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Peripatus :: Peripatus (n.) A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda..
Gnathite :: Gnathite (n.) Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds..
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..
Urosome :: Urosome (n.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods..
Stemmer :: Stemma (n.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
Malacopoda :: Malacopoda (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora..
Hypoderma :: Hypoderma (n.) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates..
Arthropod :: Arthropod (n.) One of the Arthropoda.
Annulosa :: Annulosa (n. pl.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only..
Lindia :: Lindia (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda..
Baenosome :: Baenosome (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.
Prosoma :: Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod..
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..
Arthroderm :: Arthroderm (n.) The external covering of an Arthropod.
Sternutation :: Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Uromere :: Uromere (n.) Any one of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.
Protozoonite :: Protozoonite (n.) One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic 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..
Trilobite :: Trilobite (n.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment..
Metastome :: Metastome (n.) A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
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