pediform

American  

[ped-uh-fawrm] / ˈpɛd əˌfɔrm /

adjective

1. in the form of a foot; footlike.

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pediform British  

/ ˈpɛdɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. shaped like a foot

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Other Word Forms

• pseudopediform adjective

Etymology

Origin of pediform

First recorded in 1820–30; pedi- + -form

Example Sentences

They are frequently organs of attachment in parasitic Copepoda, and they may be completely pediform in the Ostracoda.

From Project Gutenberg

In a few Ostracoda, by a rare exception, the masticatory process is reduced or suppressed, and the palp alone remains, forming a pediform appendage used in locomotion as well as in the prehension of food.

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The variable first maxillae are seldom pediform, their function being concerned chiefly with nutrition, sensation and respiration.

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The first legs, meaning thereby the sixth pair of appendages, are generally pediform and locomotive, but sometimes unjointed, acting as a kind of brushes to cleanse the furca, while in the Polycopidae they are entirely wanting.

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The appendages of the 2nd pair were slender and pediform; those of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th pairs were similar in form and ambulatory in function with their basal segments arranged round a sternal area as in the order Araneae.

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