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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the basal abdominal feet of certain male crustaceans which are specialized as auxiliary reproductive organs, as one of the pair of penes of a crab.
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- noun zoology A
pleopod that isspecialized forfertilisation in themales of somedecapods .
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gono- + -pod
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