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pleopods

pleopods is the plural of pleopod.

Meaning of pleopod

Noun

pleopod (plural pleopods or pleopoda)

  1. One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.
    • In decapods such as lobsters, pleopods are legs mainly used for swimming but sometimes used for brooding eggs or catching food. In some species certain pleopods of an animal may have been adapted to special functions such as reproduction.

Questions about pleopods

What is pleopods the plural of?
Pleopods is the plural of pleopod.

Words near pleopods in the dictionary

  1. pleophyletic
  2. pleopod
  3. pleopoda
  4. pleopodal
  5. pleopodes
  6. pleopods
  7. pleopus
  8. pleosomite
  9. pleosomites
  10. pleosporaceous
  11. pleosporalean

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