tracheate

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

adjective

1. (of an arthropod) having tracheae.

noun

1. a tracheate arthropod.

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

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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