1877, from Modern Latin Arthropoda, literally "those with jointed feet," biological classification of the phylum of segmented, legged invertebrates; see Arthropoda.
雙語例句
1. Arboviral infections are most common in the summer, when arthropod vectors are abundant.
在節(jié)肢動物媒介大量孳生的夏天, 蟲媒病傳染最為普遍.
來自辭典例句
2. Anaplasma ovis is an arthropod - borne rickettsial obligate parasite of sheep and goat.