phyllopod
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of phyllopod
From the New Latin word Phyllopoda, dating back to 1860–65. See phyllo-, -pod
Example Sentences
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A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies.
From Scientific American
A genus of freshÐwater phyllopod crustaceans.
From Project Gutenberg
Phyllopod, fil′ō-pod, adj. having foliaceous feet—also Phyllop′odous.—n. a crustacean of the order Phyllopoda.—adj.
From Project Gutenberg
In a Phyllopod such as Apus the limbs of the trunk consist of a flattened, unsegmented or obscurely segmented axis or corm having a series of lobes or processes known as endites and exites on its inner and outer margins respectively.
From Project Gutenberg
The two distal endites are regarded as corresponding to the endopodite and exopodite of the higher Crustacea, the axis or corm of the Phyllopod limb representing the protopodite.
From Project Gutenberg
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