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n. Anatomy A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube descending from the larynx to the bronchi and carrying air to the lungs. Also called windpipe.

n. Zoology One of the internal respiratory tubes of insects and some other terrestrial arthropods.

n. Botany One of the tubular conductive vessels in the xylem of vascular plants.

n. A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi; the windpipe.

n. xylem vessel

n. the respiratory system of insects

n. The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

n. One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.

n. One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.

n. In anatomy and zoäl.: The principal air-passage of the body; the windpipe, beginning at the larynx and ending at the bronchial tubes. In Arthropoda, as insects, one of the tubes which traverse the body and generally open by stigmata upon the exterior, thus bringing air to the blood and tissues generally, and constituting special respiratory organs.

n. In botany, a duct or vessel; a row or chain of cells that have lost their intervening partitions and have become a single long canal or vessel.

n. A notable genus of noctuid moths, containing one species, T. piniperda, known to English collectors as the pinebeauty.

n. membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi

n. one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids

"In this surgery, the damaged part of the trachea is removed and the remaining ends are joined together."

cartilaginous tube    tubule   

capillary tracheæ    book-leaf trachea    esophagus    oesophagus    gullet    throat   

tracheae    lung   

windpipe   

windpipe    bronchi    pharynx    epiglottis    weasand    oesophagus    gullet    alveoli    tubule    jugular