pleopod Zool.
(ˈpliːəpɒd)
[f. as pleon1 + Gr. πούς, ποδ- foot.]
One of the swimming limbs attached to the pleon or abdomen in Crustacea: see pleon1. Also pleopodite (pliːˈɒpədaɪt). Cf. pereiopod, -podite, s.v. pereion.
| 1855 C. Spence Bate in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1856) 38 Pleopoda or swimming feet are attached to..the pleon. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 635/2 The next six somites bear each a pair of swimming-feet (or pleopodites). 1893 Stebbing Crustacea iv. 45 The first five of these segments frequently have appendages that are really natatory and may properly be called pleopods, swimming-feet. |