arthropods

[ (ahr-thruh-podz) ]


A phylum, or major division of the animal kingdom. Arthropods are animals with jointed legs and segmented bodies, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and crustaceans. There are more species of arthropods than of any other animal phylum.

Words Nearby arthropods

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How to use arthropods in a sentence

  • The land mollusks and the great order of insects and other land arthropods only to a minor extent dwell in the open light.

    Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
  • The masticatory organs of arthropods were jaws disjointed at their symphysis; antennæ, nostrils turned outside in.

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • So, too, the brain of arthropods or of Mollusca is not strictly comparable with the brain of Vertebrates.

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • So we see that the arthropods, unlike the worms and the Chordata, have obliterated all record of their poor relations.

  • Limulus, like other water-dwelling arthropods, breathes by means of gills attached to its appendages.

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell