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noun invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
originFrom New Latin Arthropoda, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”) + πούς (poús, “foot”), equivalent to arthro- + -pod.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0