Definitions for tracheate

tracheate tra·che·ate

Spelling: [trey-kee-eyt, -it or, esp. British, truh-kee-it]
IPA: /ˈtreɪ kiˌeɪt, -ɪt or, esp. British, trəˈki ɪt/

Tracheate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in tracheate (aaceehrtt).

Definitions for tracheate

noun

  1. a tracheate arthropod.

adjective

  1. (of an arthropod) having tracheae.

Origin of tracheate

1875-80; New Latin Tracheata name of the class, noun use of neuter plural of tracheātus having tracheae. See trachea, Examples for tracheate

The present tracheal respiration of the Tracheata developed at a later period out of respiration through the “tracheate gills.”

Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.

No tracheate Crustacea are known, but some terrestrial Isopoda develop pulmonary in-sinkings of the integument.

If the ancestor of the Insecta was, as seems possible, tracheate, this fact alone would rule out the trilobites.

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