Arthropods (phylum Arthropoda) are members of a large phylum of animals. The word "arthropoda" means jointed legged, so evidently all arthropods are jointed legged. All arthropods also have exoskeletons made primarily of a hard protein called chitin. Arthropods are grouped into the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods. Insects are a class of arthropod with three body segments - the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. Arachnids and crustaceans have the head and thorax combined into one --- this is known as the cephalothorax. However, arachnids do not have antennae, but crustaceans have a set of antennae and another set of shorter antennules. Myriapods are the subphylum with the centipedes and millipedes. Their bodies are divided into A LOT OF SEGMENTS!!!!
The arthropods are almost as biologically diverse as the chordates.
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Any of the set of animals that belong to the insect family.
They put flames on my beetle when they pimped my arthropod.
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One of the shittest enchantments avaliable in the game minecraft
Damm, I got bane of arthropods as the highest level enchantment for my sword again, time to uninstall!
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That’s one wicked arthropod! Is it a spider?
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