arthropodousadj.
/ɑːˈθrɒpədəs/, U.S. /ɑrˈθrɑpədəs/ Zoology.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Arthropoda or arthropods; = arthropodan adj.In quot. 1997, referring (humorously) to palaeontologists who study arthropods.
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1855 Proc. Royal Soc. 7 294 He states his conviction that the Rotifera belong to the great Arthropodous division of animals.
1882 G. Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 24 Bees and butterflies, the aristocrats of the arthropodous world.
1911 Lancet 15 July 161/1 The alleged origin of vertebrated animals from arthropodous creatures, such as scorpions, trilobites, and the like.
1979 Systematic Zool. 28 635/1 Insect workers tend to approach problems in the phylogeny of all arthropodous forms in terms of insect biology.
1997 R. Fortey Life v. 134 Two of my arthropodous colleagues..had been describing fossil shrimps in the early 1980s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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