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uropods

uropods is the plural of uropod.

Meaning of uropod

Noun

uropod (plural uropods)

  1. either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans.
  2. the hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis.

Questions about uropods

What is uropods the plural of?
Uropods is the plural of uropod.

Words near uropods in the dictionary

  1. uropodal
  2. uropodid
  3. uropodids
  4. uropodoid
  5. uropodoids
  6. uropods
  7. uropoetic
  8. uropoiesis
  9. uropoietic
  10. uroporphyria
  11. uroporphyric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uropods (page history and authors); uropod (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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