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lobopods

lobopods is the plural of lobopod.

Meaning of lobopod

Noun

lobopod (plural lobopods)

  1. Any of the numerous stub-legs of a lobopodian; a lobopodium.
    • Onychophorans […] have cylindrical segmented bodies with many pairs of legs called lobopods, which are essentially fluid-filled bags.2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian
  2. One of the extinct panarthropods of the phylum Lobopodia.
    • The early lobopods have a melange of characteristics that makes their position on the tree of life difficult to pin down.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 261

Questions about lobopods

What is lobopods the plural of?
Lobopods is the plural of lobopod.

Words near lobopods in the dictionary

  1. lobopodia
  2. lobopodial
  3. lobopodian
  4. lobopodians
  5. lobopodium
  6. lobopods
  7. Lobor
  8. lobos
  9. Lobosco
  10. Loboscos
  11. lobose

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