Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Trachearia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
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Examples
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Some of the lower articulata (both crustacea and tracheata).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The annelids were supposed to be the direct ancestors, not only of the crustacea and tracheata, but also of the vertebrates.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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None of the articulates, either annelids or arthropods (crustacea and tracheata), show any trace of this type of organisation.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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