a. (sb.) Zool. [ad. mod.L. Trāchēāta, f. trāchēa: see above and -ATE2 2.] Furnished with or having trachea, as an arthropod; belonging to the group Tracheata, in some classifications comprising the insects, myriapods, arachnids, and the genus Peripatus, or spec. to the order Tracheata or Trachearia of arachnids, which breathe by tracheæ alone. In quot. 18881 = TRACHEAL 1 b. b. sb. A tracheate arthropod. So Tracheated a.

1

1877.  Woodward, in Encycl. Brit., VI. 654/2. The terrestrial tracheated air-breathing Scorpionidæ.

2

1878.  Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 288. None of these rudiments are retained in any living Tracheate.

3

1888.  Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 494 (Arthropoda). Respiration may be cutaneous…; or branchiate…; or tracheate, and carrying air to all the tissues. Ibid., 496. The majority of Arachnida are tracheate.

4