What is Arthropoda?
a large phylum of invertebrate animals that includes insects, spiders, crustaceans, and their relatives. They have a segmented body, an external skeleton, and jointed limbs, and are sometimes placed in different phyla.
The word Arthropods contain two words-artho which means joints and pod means leg..So the Arthropods are the creatures who have jointed legs...like insects-prawn, flies, mosquito, grasshopper etc.