a. (sb.) [ad. mod.L. trāchēāri-us, neut. pl. -a: see above.]
1. Zool. = prec. b. as sb. = prec. b.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xix. 281. Trachearies, or those [Arachnidans] that breathe by spiracles in connection with tracheæ.
1872. Latham, Tracheary, adj., breathing by means of tracheæ, rather than lungs.
2. Bot. = TRACHEAL 2; esp. applied to tissue containing both tracheæ and tracheides.
1885. [see TRACHEAL 2].
1900. in B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms.