Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as arthropodous.

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  • adjective of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda

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Examples

  • Perhaps it was merely a kind of arthropodal pack rat and wished to add you to its collection.

    The Dig Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1995

  • I could also add an ultrasonic fogger I found that's a volcano if the walls of the tank were a little higher: scorpions don't go up sheer surfaces like geckoes, but a rough plastic incline they could probably do, and the volcano's high enough to put them within reach of the edge, returning us to the arthropodal Ringworld Ringwall/Fist-of-God scenario I mentioned a couple of months ago.

    book (outgoing&incoming), mail, web, projects badger 2003

  • Pillars and floorboards that stood bare of life under the sun erupt with a swarm of arthropodal activity.

    The annotated budak 2009

  • I know they have there place in the ecosystem and all, and I respect that, it’s not like I’m applying some indiscriminate chemical of mass arthropodal genocide.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2001

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