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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the delicate ultimate branches of a trachea in insects.

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  1. n. One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen. Derived from diminutive of trachea.

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  1. New Latin trāchēola, diminutive of Medieval Latin trāchēa, trachea; see trachea. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. trachiole

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