tracheate

tracheate
/tray"kee ayt', -it/ or, esp. Brit., /treuh kee"it/, adj.
1. (of an arthropod) having tracheae.
n.
2. a tracheate arthropod.
[1875-80; < NL Tracheata name of the class, n. use of neut. pl. of tracheatus having tracheae. See TRACHEA, -ATE1]

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