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🫁 Windpipe 🐞 Air tube (insect)
trachea

trachea

6.7
Small tubes in insects and spiders that carry air to their bodies
  • noun
  • /ˈtreɪkiə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tráquea
  • The insect's trachea allow air to travel directly to its tissues through a network of small tubes.

Examples

  • Insects breathe through a system of trachea that delivers oxygen directly to their cells.

  • The trachea of the spider consists of tiny tubes that facilitate respiration throughout its body.

  • And this was to avoid the trachea to be rejected by Kieran.

  • And here are the trachea neurons growing away from the floor plate.

Surface Forms

trachea singular
tracheas plural
tracheae plural

Etymology

Trachea comes from the Greek word trachys, 'rough', and was used for any small tube; in insects the trachea are tiny tubes that carry air directly to the body. So thinking of a 'small air tube' helps you remember that insect trachea move oxygen to the tissues.