polypod

[ pol-ee-pod ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

polypod

/ ˈpɒlɪˌpɒd /

Origin of polypod¹

< Italian (1913) < Greek, stem of polýpous many-footed; polyp

Herbivorous; polypod; antenniferous: body short, oblong, depressed, margined.

This was all good, as far as it went, but Polypod cried harder and harder.

Polypod had been quite ill; a touch of fever, the doctor said.

It never had occurred to anybody in that house that Polypod could be lonely before.

Polypod did not stop to guess; she jumped down and peeped in at a corner.

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