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ARTHROPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("arthropod" is a kind of...):
invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)
Meronyms (parts of "arthropod"):
arthromere (any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod)
thorax (the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen)
apodeme (ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles)
carapace; cuticle; shell; shield (hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles)
sclerite (hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arthropod"):
instar (an insect or other arthropod between molts)
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
onychophoran; peripatus; velvet worm (any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms)
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
pentastomid; tongue worm (wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals)
eurypterid (large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs)
Asian horseshoe crab (horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia)
horseshoe crab; king crab; Limulus polyphemus; Xiphosurus polyphemus (large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse)
class Merostomata; Merostomata (used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida)
pycnogonid; sea spider (any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs)
millepede; milliped; millipede (any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs)
centipede (chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors)
tardigrade (an arthropod of the division Tardigrada)
garden centipede; garden symphilid; Scutigerella immaculata; symphilid (minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops)
myriapod (general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes)
arachnid; arachnoid (air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs)
trilobite (an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts)
Holonyms ("arthropod" is a member of...):
Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)
Derivation:
arthropodal (of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda)
