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fishopod

fishopod is the alternative form of fishapod.

Meaning of fishapod

Noun

fishapod (plural fishapods)

  1. (informal) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.
    • In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12

Forms of fishopod

pluralfishopods

Origin of fishopod

fish + -o- + -pod. From being fish having characteristics akin to feet.

Questions about fishopod

What is fishopod the alternative form of?
Fishopod is the alternative form of fishapod.

Words near fishopod in the dictionary

  1. fishnet stockings
  2. fishnets
  3. fishnetted
  4. fishnetty
  5. fisho
  6. fishopod
  7. fishopods
  8. fishos
  9. fishpass
  10. fishpasses
  11. fishpaste

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fishopod (page history and authors); fishapod (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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