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What is an arthropod?

What is an arthropod? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
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All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey.
Fiddler crabs, like their arthropod cousins the insects, have compound eyes.
This insect is among the most damaging arthropod pests of pears in North America and Europe.
Major arthropod lines have long been recognized, but the phylogenetic relationships among these groups remain controversial.
The ecdysial suture is the region of the arthropod exoskeleton that splits to allow the animal to emerge during ecdysis.
It thus seems likely that the ancestral arthropod from which insects evolved had appendages on all its segments.

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