Hexapod Definition

hĕksə-pŏd
noun

Insect.

Webster's New World
Any of numerous six-legged arthropods of the subphylum Hexapoda, which includes the insects and several groups formerly classified as insects, such as the springtails.
American Heritage Medicine

Any organism or being with six legs.

Wiktionary

(dated) An insect.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of or belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda.
American Heritage Medicine
Having six legs, as a true insect.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hexapod

Noun

Singular:
hexapod
Plural:
hexapods

Origin of Hexapod

  • From New Latin Hexapoda class name Greek hexa- hexa- New Latin -poda -pod

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hexapod Sentence Examples

  • Two divergent views have been held as to the nature of the original hexapod stock.

  • The fat-body is therefore the seat of important metabolic processes in the hexapod body.

  • But the word " Insect " had become limited since the days of Linnaeus to the Hexapod Pterygote forms, to the exclusion of his Aptera.

  • Taken in connexion with the likeness of the young among the more generalized orders to the adults, it indicates clearly a thysanuroid starting-point for the evolution of the hexapod orders.

  • Scorpio is here provided with a single or double pair of renal excretory tubes, which have been identified by earlier authors with the Malpighian tubes of the Hexapod and Myriapod insects.

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