arthropod
An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
A kind of
- invertebrate
Kinds of arthropod
- arachnid
- garden centipede
- centipede
- millipede
- sea spider
- tongue worm
- crustacean
- velvet worm
Related words
- arthropodal
- arthropodic
- arthropodization
- arthropodologist
- arthropodology
- macroarthropod
- microarthropod
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἄρθρον" (joint).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “arthropod” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.