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Webster 1913 Edition


Hexapoda


Hex-ap′o-da

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἕξ
six +
-poda
.]
(Zool.)
The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.
☞ The Hexapoda have the head, thorax, and abdomen differentiated, and are mostly winged. They have three pairs of mouth organs, viz., mandibles, maxillæ, and the second maxillæ or labial palpi; three pairs of thoracic legs; and abdominal legs, which are present only in some of the lowest forms, and in the larval state of some of the higher ones. Many (the Metabola) undergo a complete metamorphosis, having larvæ (known as maggots, grubs, caterpillars) very unlike the adult, and pass through a quiescent pupa state in which no food is taken; others (the Hemimetabola) have larvæ much like the adult, expert in lacking wings, and an active pupa, in which rudimentary wings appear. See
Insecta
. The Hexapoda are divided into several orders.

Definition 2024


hexápoda

hexápoda

See also: Hexapoda and hexàpoda

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Adjective

hexápoda

  1. feminine singular of hexápodo