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What is an arthropod?

What is an arthropod? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.
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It thus seems likely that the ancestral arthropod from which insects evolved had appendages on all its segments.
Lilac-crowned Parrots are predominantly granivorous and do not supplement nestling diets with arthropod prey.
This insect is among the most damaging arthropod pests of pears in North America and Europe.
The eye of arthropod invertebrates is vastly different from the molluscan or vertebrate eye.
The Cambrian Explosion, for example, is the first time we are able to distinguish a chordate from an arthropod.
Fiddler crabs, like their arthropod cousins the insects, have compound eyes.

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