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Definition of Hexapods
1. hexapod [n] - See also: hexapod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexapods
Literary usage of Hexapods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"Either the hexapods and Myriapods are closely related to the air-breathing ...
If this be so, another possible place of attachment for the hexapods and ..."
2. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God: As Manifested in the Creation of by William Kirby (1837)
"With regard to their oral organs, they correspond with those of hexapods, both
in number and kind, for in the mouth, above is a representative of the ..."
3. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1837)
"three principal parts, as in hexapods; first, there is a head with antennae, and
the usual oral organs, though a little aberrant in their structure; next, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In the Carboniferous strata (Coal measures) remains of hexapods become numerous
and quite indisputable. Many European forms of this age have been described ..."
5. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1891)
"Certainly the evidence which Patten has given for the Peripatus- like type of
the compound eye of hexapods has not been found in any of the Crustacea. ..."
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