tracheate

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

adjective
  1. (of an arthropod) having tracheae.

noun
  1. a tracheate arthropod.

Origin of tracheate

1
1875–80; <New Latin Tracheata name of the class, noun use of neuter plural of tracheātus having tracheae. See trachea, -ate1

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