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Definition of Tardigrade

1. Noun. An arthropod of the division Tardigrada.

Definition of Tardigrade

1. a. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.

2. n. One of the Tardigrada.

Definition of Tardigrade

1. Adjective. Sluggish; moving slowly. ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tardigrade

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tardigrade

1. 1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. 2. Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada. Origin: L. Tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi to step: cf. F. Tardigrade. One of the Tardigrada. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tardigrade

Literary usage of Tardigrade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by John Lubbock (1902)
"63) arising through this process of yolk-segmentation, the body of the tardigrade is then built up.1 FIG. 60, Egg of tardigrade, Kaufmann, Zuit f. \Vi>s. ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"The soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow. ..."

3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"Clearly the eggs of the stentor had got into the dead hollow body of the tardigrade, and developed there 1 That this inference is a correct one I have ..."

4. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by John Lubbock (1902)
"63) arising through this process of yolk-segmentation, the body of the tardigrade is then built up.1 FIG. 60, Egg of tardigrade, Kaufmann, Zuit f. \Vi>s. ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"The soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow. ..."

6. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"Clearly the eggs of the stentor had got into the dead hollow body of the tardigrade, and developed there 1 That this inference is a correct one I have ..."

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