English

Noun

anthropod ‎(plural anthropods)

1. Misspelling of arthropod.
   • 2003, Kathi Wagner, The Everything Kids' Bugs Book: Puzzles, Games, and Trivia:

     anthropod: A joint-legged creature. All insects are anthropods, but not all anthropods are insects.

   • 2007, Dave Richards, ‎Val Richards, Kenya, page 146:

     Anthropod-borne diseases such as malaria, plague, relapsing fever, Rift Valley fever, tick-bite fever, and typhus (mainly tick-borne) have been reported from most of this area.

   • 2011, Jennifer Bean Bower, Animal Adventures in North Carolina:

     Or they may be eager to enter the Anthropod Zoo, where an enormous praying mantis stands at the entrance.

See also

• anthropoid