ArthropodWordNet Explorer
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any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts
air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes
minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops
an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors