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tracheate

/trey-kee-eyt, -it or, especially British, truh-kee-it/US // ˈtreɪ kiˌeɪt, -ɪt or, especially British, trəˈki ɪt //

气管,气管的,气管炎,气管式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having tracheae.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tracheate arthropod.

Examples

  • The present tracheal respiration of the Tracheata developed at a later period out of respiration through the “tracheate gills.”

  • If the ancestor of the Insecta was, as seems possible, tracheate, this fact alone would rule out the trilobites.

  • Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.

  • No tracheate Crustacea are known, but some terrestrial Isopoda develop pulmonary in-sinkings of the integument.