pleopod
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈpliːəˌpɒd/
Definition of pleopod
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.
“In decapods such as lobsters, pleopods are legs mainly used for swimming but sometimes used for brooding eggs or catching food. In some species certain pleopods of an animal may have been adapted to special functions such as reproduction.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pleon (“the abdomen of a crustacean”) + -pod (“foot”).
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