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
- : having tracheae.
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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