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hexapoda's Usage Examples:

The compound eyes of insects resemble so closely the similar organs in Crustaceans that there can hardly be reasonable doubt of their homology, and the primitively appendicular nature of the eyes in the latter class suggests that in the Hexapoda also they represent the appendages of an anterior (protocerebral) segment.

A true insect, or member of the class Hexapoda, may be known by the grouping of its body-segments in three distinct regions - a head, a thorax and an abdomen - each of which consists of a definite number of segments.

Latreille in 1825 (Families naturelles du regne animal), since it has the advantage of expressing, in a single word, an important characteristic of the group. The terms "Hexapoda " and " hexapod " had already been used by F.

Brisson (1756), is still adopted by many zoologists, while others prefer the name Hexapoda, first used systematically in its modern sense by P. A.

DIPTERA (Sis, double, 7rTEpa, wings), a term (first employed in its modern sense by Linnaeus, Fauna Suecica, 1st ed., 1746, p. 306) used in zoological classification for one of the Orders into which the Hexapoda, or Insecta, are divided.

In addition to what may be found in numerous important works on the Hexapoda (q.v.) as a whole, such as J.

For the relationship of the Coleoptera to other orders of insects see Hexapoda.

COLEOPTERA, a term used in zoological classification for the true beetles which form one of the best-marked and most natural of the orders into which the class Hexapoda (or Insecta) has been divided.

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THYSANOPTERA (Oiaavos, a fringe, and 7rTepbv, a wing), a term used in zoological classification for a small order of the class Hexapoda.

hexapoda's Meaning':

insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

Synonyms:

order Siphonaptera, Collembola, order Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, order Odonata, Siphonaptera, order Protura, order Ephemerida, Coleoptera, Arthropoda, Mallophaga, order mantophasmatodea, Phasmida, order Phasmatodea, order Trichoptera, order Coleoptera, order Mecoptera, phylum Arthropoda, order Ephemeroptera, order Embioptera, Hymenoptera, Odonata, order Orthoptera, order Psocoptera, Mantophasmatodea, order Thysanura, Insecta, order Phasmida, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, order Plecoptera, Hemimetabola, Anoplura, order Mallophaga, order Dermaptera, order Diptera, order Corrodentia, Dermaptera, Embiodea, Trichoptera, order Collembola, order Embiodea, order Dictyoptera, Dictyoptera, Plecoptera, Psocoptera, order Neuroptera, Ephemerida, order Hemiptera, Corrodentia, order Anoplura, order Isoptera, Orthoptera, Mecoptera, Protura, Phasmatodea, order Lepidoptera, class Hexapoda, class, Exopterygota, Neuroptera, subclass Exopterygota, Thysanura, Thysanoptera, class Insecta, Embioptera, order Thysanoptera,

Antonyms:

inelegance,