TARDIGRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tardigrade mean? 

• TARDIGRADE (noun)
  The noun TARDIGRADE has 1 sense:

1. an arthropod of the division Tardigrada

  Familiarity information: TARDIGRADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARDIGRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arthropod of the division Tardigrada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tardigrade" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Meronyms (parts of "tardigrade"):

stylet (small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade)

Holonyms ("tardigrade" is a member of...):

class Tardigrada; Tardigrada (in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having 4 pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx)