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arthropods

arthropods is the plural of arthropod.

Meaning of arthropod

Noun

arthropod (plural arthropods or arthropodae)

  1. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
    • In at least one other arthropod, the Stalk-eyed fly, it is the sheer length of the stalks themselves, which can be longer than the animal's body, which make the male attractive to females.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107

Questions about arthropods

What is arthropods the plural of?
Arthropods is the plural of arthropod.

Words near arthropods in the dictionary

  1. arthropodization
  2. arthropodological
  3. arthropodologist
  4. arthropodologists
  5. arthropodology
  6. arthropods
  7. arthropomatous
  8. arthropometric
  9. arthroprothesis
  10. arthropsin
  11. arthropsins

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