sb. pl. Zool. [mod.L., f. Gr. ἄρθρον joint + πούς (ποδ-) foot. The singular, Eng. in form, is arthropod; also pl. -pods.] Animals with jointed feet; a name for the more highly organized Annulosa or Articulata, comprising Insects, Spiders, Crustacea, and Myriapoda, having segmented bodies to which hollow jointed appendages (antennæ, wings, legs) are articulated in pairs. Arthropodal a., of or belonging to the Arthropoda. Arthropodous a. = prec.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 105. Accordingly, as the respiration is aquatic or aerial, the Arthropoda are divisible into two great groups. Ibid., 107. The Crustacea, the earliest representatives of the Arthropodal type.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 390. In these Arthropods, the body is divided into many segments, the most anterior of which takes on the characters of a distinct head. Ibid., xii. 679. Its nervous system is … Arthropodal.
1882. G. Allen, Col. Flowers, ii. 24. Bees and butterflies, the aristocrats of the arthropodous world.
