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gonopods

gonopods is the plural of gonopod.

Meaning of gonopod

Noun

gonopod (plural gonopods)

  1. A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
  2. A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.
    • ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45

Questions about gonopods

What is gonopods the plural of?
Gonopods is the plural of gonopod.

Words near gonopods in the dictionary

  1. gonopodal
  2. gonopodia
  3. gonopodial
  4. gonopodium
  5. gonopodomere
  6. gonopods
  7. gonopoietic
  8. gonopore
  9. gonopores
  10. gonorhynchiform
  11. gonorrhea

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