Definition of Tracheate

1. a. Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.

2. n. Any arthropod having tracheæ; one of the Tracheata.

Definition of Tracheate

1. Noun. (zoology) Any arthropod with tracheae; one of the Tracheata. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tracheate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tracheate

1. Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata. Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tracheate

tracheal ring
tracheal triangle
tracheal tube
tracheal tug
tracheal ulceration
tracheal vein
tracheal veins
tracheal wall stripe
trachealgia
trachealis
trachealis muscle
trachearia
tracheary
tracheas
tracheata
tracheate (current term)
tracheated
tracheates
tracheid
tracheid cell
tracheid cells
tracheids
tracheitis
tracheitises
trachel-
trachelagra
trachelalis
trachelectomies
trachelectomy
trachelematoma

Literary usage of Tracheate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"The development of the first tracheate Insects out of gill-bearing ... According to Gegenbaur, of all living tracheate Insects, the Primaeval Flies, ..."

2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Solifugae: head and thorax separate; thorax of three separate somites; abdomen with nine somites; falces chelate; palpi limb-like, tracheate. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"In 1893 Pocock * divided the tracheate Arthropods into two sections, ... he placed the Symphyla among the tracheate Progo- neata. ..."

4. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"On the other hand, its tracheate affinities are shown by the claw-tipped feet, by the adaptation of the feet (mandibles) for masticatory purposes, ..."

5. Zoology for High Schools and Colleges by Alpheus Spring Packard (1886)
"Body worm-like, tracheate, with two antennae; fleshy legs armed with claws ... Body many - segmented, many-footed, tracheate; with a pair of antennae ..."

6. Zoology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1883)
"Body worm-like, tracheate, with two antennae; fleshy legs armed with claws ... Body many - segmented, many-footed, tracheate; with a pair of antennae ..."

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