a. (sb.) [ad. mod.L. trāchēāri-us, neut. pl. -a: see above.]

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  1.  Zool. = prec. b. as sb. = prec. b.

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1835.  Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xix. 281. Trachearies, or those [Arachnidans] that breathe by spiracles in connection with tracheæ.

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1872.  Latham, Tracheary, adj., breathing by means of tracheæ, rather than lungs.

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  2.  Bot. = TRACHEAL 2; esp. applied to tissue containing both tracheæ and tracheides.

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1885.  [see TRACHEAL 2].

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1900.  in B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms.

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