ärˈthräpədə noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from arthr- + -poda
: a plylum consisting of articulate invertebrate animals with jointed limbs, the body divided into metameric segments, the brain dorsal to the alimentary canal and connected with a ventral chain of ganglia, and the body generally covered with a chitinous shell that is molted at intervals and including the crustaceans, insects, and spiders and related forms as well as several less prominent groups (as the millepedes and onychophores), often the trilobites, and sometimes the tongue worms, sea spiders, and water bears
• ar·throp·o·dal (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷pədəl adjective
• ar·throp·o·dan -dən adjective
• ar·throp·o·dous -dəs adjective