tracheate

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

adjective

noun

Origin of tracheate

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

The present tracheal respiration of the Tracheata developed at a later period out of respiration through the “tracheate gills.”
The History of Creation, Vol. II (of 2) | Ernst Haeckel
If the ancestor of the Insecta was, as seems possible, tracheate, this fact alone would rule out the trilobites.
The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites | Percy Edward Raymond
Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith
No tracheate Crustacea are known, but some terrestrial Isopoda develop pulmonary in-sinkings of the integument.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 | Various

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