noun
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Any organism, being or robot with six legs.
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An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
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An insect.
adjective
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Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda, hexapodous.
Examples of hexapod in a Sentence
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.
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.
This gives seven somites to the Hexapod's head, the tergites of which are fused to form a cephalic carapace or box.
Lecaillon (1898) on various leaf beetles, tend to show that the organ " in the embryos of the lower Arthropoda corresponds with whole of the " mid-gut " arises from the proliferation of cells at the the region invaginated to form the serosa of the hexapod embryo.
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.
The number is significant, since it agrees with that found in Edriophthalmous Crustacea, and assigns the labium of the Hexapod to the same somite numerically as that which carries the labium-like maxillipedes of those Crustacea.
An adult Hexapod is provided with a firm, well-chitinized cuticle and six conspicuous jointed legs.
The segmentation of the prosoma and the form of the appendages bear a homoplastic similarity to the head, pro-, meso-, and meta-thorax of a Hexapod with mandibles, maxillary palps and three pairs of walking legs; while the opistho io i e d c b o a S' S" 2 I VT V S IV III II I Opisthosoma Prosoma FIG.
The history of the development of the head has been carefully worked out in the Hexapod insects.