Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- One of two prime divisions (Anarthropoda being the other) into which a subkingdom Annulosa has been divided. It contains bilateral segmented animals with articulated legs, and approximately corresponds to the “articulated animals with articulated legs” of Cuvier, as contrasted with his other division (Annelides) of Articulata, or with the Condylopoda of Latreille, or with the Gnathopoda or Arthrozoa of some other naturalists.
- In more modern and exact usage, one of the phyla, subkingdoms, or main types of the Metazoa, containing the articulated, invertebrate, non-ciliated animals with articulated limbs, a ganglionic nervous system, oviparous reproduction, and generally separate sexes. The phylum is divided by nearly common consent into the four great classes Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea, and contains the vast majority (about four fifths) of the animal kingdom, in numbers both of species and of individuals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes.
Examples
“Insects were members of the phylum arthropoda—creatures having hard outer skeletons and jointed legs.”
“Insects were members of the phylum arthropoda – creatures having hard outer skeletons and jointed legs.”
“Beautiful results are thus obtained with echinoderms, zoophytes, worms and marine arthropoda.”
“The next higher examples to be met are the frequently cited ants and bees, belonging to the lowly organized class of arthropoda, yet, through the advantage of association and mutual aid, developing actions and habits only found elsewhere in the human race.”
“Scientifically it has no relation to the great family of true insects; it belongs to the very distinct family of the arthropoda or "joint-footed" animals.”
“If this occurrence of a true hexapod insect from the Middle Silurian be really established, taken in connection with the well-defined Coleoptera from the Carboniferous, the origin of the entire group of terrestrial arthropoda is necessarily thrown back into the Cambrian epoch, if not earlier.”
“The less highly organised terrestrial arthropoda -- the Arachnida and”
“Insects belong to the phylum arthropoda, as do lobster, shrimp, crayfish, etc.”
“He points out that insects are the evolutionary cousins of crustaceans, which belong to the same taxonomic phylum, arthropoda.”
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