| 单词 |
tracheate |
| 释义 |
tracheate, a. (n.) Zool.|ˈtreɪkiːeɪt| [ad. mod.L. Trāchēāta, f. trāchēa: see above and -ate2 2.] Furnished with or having tracheæ, as an arthropod; belonging to the group Tracheata, in some classifications comprising the insects, myriapods, arachnids, and the genus Peripatus, or spec. to the order Tracheata or Trachearia of arachnids, which breathe by tracheæ alone. In quot. 18881 = tracheal 1 b. b. n. A tracheate arthropod. So ˈtracheated a.
1877Woodward in Encycl. Brit. VI. 654/2 The terrestrial tracheated air-breathing Scorpionidæ. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 288 None of these rudiments are retained in any living Tracheate. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 494 (Arthropoda) Respiration may be cutaneous..; or branchiate..; or tracheate, and carrying air to all the tissues. Ibid. 496 The majority of Arachnida are tracheate. |

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