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Synonyms for arthropod

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ahr-thruh-pod
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɑr θrəˌpɒd

Top 10 synonyms for arthropod
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Définition of arthropod

Origin :
  • 1877, from Modern Latin Arthropoda, literally "those with jointed feet," biological classification of the phylum of segmented, legged invertebrates; see Arthropoda.
  • As in insect : noun bug
Example sentences :
  • Florida pocket-gopher burrows and their arthropod inhabitants.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
  • An ten' na, a segmented sensory appendage on the head of an arthropod.
  • Extract from : « A Guide for the Study of Animals » by Worrallo Whitney
  • The corm becomes the seat of a development of a special visual organ, the Arthropod eye (as opposed to the Chaetopod eye).
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 » by Various
  • Two distinct forms of the Arthropod eye are observed—the monomeniscous (simple) and the polymeniscous (compound).
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 » by Various
  • Intertergal, in-tÄ—r-tÄ—r′gal, adj. situated between the terga or tergites of an arthropod.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • Audouin gave the detailed demonstration of this by his accurate and minute determination of the pieces of the arthropod skeleton.
  • Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • Turn the Arthropod on its back and the relative positions of the systems of organs are the same as in the Vertebrate.
  • Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • These cavities both in the vertebrate and in the arthropod disappear before the adult condition is reached.
  • Extract from : « The Origin of Vertebrates » by Walter Holbrook Gaskell
  • Thus the nervous system is dorsal in the Vertebrate, ventral in the Arthropod.
  • Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • In other words, without the arthropod host the disease-producing organism cannot complete its development.
  • Extract from : « Handbook of Medical Entomology » by William Albert Riley
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