Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
parapodium .
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- noun Plural form of
parapodium .
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Examples
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The creamy pink worms have tiny, fleshy, almost leglike projections called parapodia, which function during movement and respiration, said Stetson Everett of Eastern Sea Worm Co. in Hancock.
BangorDailyNews.com - News By Sharon Kiley Mack BDN Staff 2010
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Some polychaetes such as the sea mouse Aphrodite aculeate also bear a ventral muscular, creeping sole; myzostomids have a circular body with fused parapodia, which also forms a ventral foot like structure.
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The unpaired fins of fish were originally paired and possibly arose from the coalescence of rows of parapodia.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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