Noun: pleopod
| Singular | pleopod |
| Plural | pleopods; pleopoda |
Sample Sentences
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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.
Nouns inflected like pleopod
peraeopod,
pleopod,
autonomous okrug,
cadaver,
trehantiri,
cataphor,
bhaji,
okrug,
tuath,
penni,
phasm,
starr,
anaphor,
pseudepigraph,
souflaki,
souvlaki,
endoplasm,
menologem,
atrament,
exopod, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pleon (“the abdomen of a crustacean”) + -pod (“foot”).