Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A jointed invertebrate animal with jointed legs; one of the Arthropoda.
- Arthropodous; pertaining to or having the characters of the Arthropoda.
Wiktionary
- n. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Arthropoda.
WordNet 3.0
- n. invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
Etymologies
- From Latin arthropoda, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (arthron, "joint") + πούς (pous, "foot"). (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Arthropoda, phylum name : arthro- + New Latin -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“From the diminutive to the rather large, something for fans of invertebrates, Hurdia victoria, a half-meter long predatory arthropod from the famous Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale of British Columbia.”
“Researchers who have had the chance to see the amazing fossil say that the only thing you need to investigate the arthropod is a microscope.”
“The team has so far recorded 100 different arthropod species, but Rust said they expect to find more, some of which are likely to be close relatives of animals in Africa and Madagascar.”
The Guardian: Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
“Fossil hunters find 150kg of amber in Gujarat province containing over 700 arthropod specimens”
The Guardian: Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
“Thomas Hardwicke's collection included arthropod drawings with precise details, such as this tarantula by an artist only known as J.”
“It seemed to be to be about a foot long (probably six inches), it's arthropod feet scuttling along the floor, humping it's multiple legs in a nasty fashion.”
“He ditched me for an arthropod but I'm almost over it ...”
“Far more satisfying was the Howard Wolowitz/Sheldon Cooper showdown over whether their captured arthropod was Toby the common field cricket or Jiminy the snow tree cricket.”
“I surmised this expiring unfortunate was being readied for implantation onto the thorax of an ultra-large arthropod, and so his eyes seemed to suggest as he went down in struggle.”
“Coarsely printed woodcuts demonstrated of travelers rent and dying after an onslaught of arthropod monsters surmounted by cruel, angry men.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘arthropod’.
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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pede-, ped-, -pede, -pedal, -pod, -po...
denoting or relating to feet ; of or like a foot
centipede, bipedal, pedometer, millipede, arthropod, quadrupedal, pedicure, pedal, pedopathy, tripod, monopod, pedatifid and 9 more...
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It's an art
applecart, arterial, arthology, artesian, arthropod, arthrostraca, artifex, artificial, articulate, articling, artichoke, blue darter and 51 more...
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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arthro-, arthr-
of or relating to joints
arthroscope, arthritis, arthropod, arthrectomy, arthrodynia, arthropodal
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Animal
All things animal.
wookiee, onomatopoeia, arthropod, bangle, zoömimetic, vulpeculated, nag, pronk
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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tongue ticklers
the hall of famers.
hootenanny, turgid, ameliorate, huzzah, kerfuffle, umbrage, pogonophobia, corpulent, slatternly, flagrant, felicitous, spackle and 67 more...
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phej's Words
root, acquiesce, other, bliss, latinate, burst, consistent, gut, hither, tea, wilful, time and 47 more...
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Of Ants and Men
While reading Orwell's non-fiction, I ran across his 68 year-old review of this book, which by focusing on the most lurid aspects piqued my interest, and so I checked it out of my library.
myrmecology, scoliid, stirp, huntress, ingluvial, social stomach, annectent, mycelium, formicary, hypha, fungus garden, hypogeic and 20 more...
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wickerman's Words
xenomorph, arthropod, atheist, coffee, android, horrific, feculent, automaton, radiation, particulate, oligarchy, proletariat and 41 more...
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smerus's Words
syzygy, adumbrate, fuselage, taghairm, quotidian, theremin, eleemosynary, quagmire, arthropod, infangthief, scherzando, diaeresis and 23 more...
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mcbaine's Words
surficant, vicissitude, erinaceous, battousai, himura, wang, pedagogical, pedantic, immure, tertiary, tetrahedron, widget and 104 more...
Tweets
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yarb ...a somewhat less highly conventionalized social form co-exists with the highest individual mental endowment ever attained by an Arthropod.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 48 Dec 5, 2008