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tracheoles

tracheoles is the plural of tracheole.

Meaning of tracheole

Noun

tracheole (plural tracheoles)

  1. One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen.
    • Indeed, in the muscles of the wings every fibre has its own particular tracheole (small trachea).1886, Frank Richard Cheshire, Bees & Bee-keeping, page 42

Questions about tracheoles

What is tracheoles the plural of?
Tracheoles is the plural of tracheole.

Words near tracheoles in the dictionary

  1. tracheogenic
  2. tracheoinnominate
  3. tracheolar
  4. tracheolaryngeal
  5. tracheole
  6. tracheoles
  7. tracheomalacia
  8. tracheomediastinal
  9. tracheomycosis
  10. tracheomycotic
  11. tracheonasal

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