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

  • Some of the lower articulata (both crustacea and tracheata).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • 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

  • 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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