Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the very small, branching tubes at the tips of the tracheae of an arthropod. Oxygen and carbon dioxide diffuse through the walls of the tracheoles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the delicate ultimate branches of a trachea in insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen. Derived from diminutive of
trachea .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin trāchēola, diminutive of Medieval Latin trāchēa, trachea; see trachea.]
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