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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A segment of an appendage of an arthropod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A limb or leg of a crustacean, especially when developed as an ambulatory appendage, or leg fitted for walking. See endopodite, exopodite, epipodite; also basipodite, coxopodite, dactylopodite, ischiopodite, meropodite, propodite, and cuts under
Podophthalmia .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots + –ite.]
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