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n. Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.

n. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.

n. One of the Arthropoda.

n. A jointed invertebrate animal with jointed legs; one of the Arthropoda.

Arthropodous; pertaining to or having the characters of the Arthropoda.

n. invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

"From the diminutive to the rather large, something for fans of invertebrates, Hurdia victoria, a half-meter long predatory arthropod from the famous Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale of British Columbia."

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