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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychaete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.
  • noun A winglike extension of the foot of certain gastropods, such as the sea butterflies, used for swimming.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the unjointed lateral locomotor processes or series of foot-stumps, foot-tubercles, or rudimentary limbs of many worms, as annelids.
  • noun [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of hymenopterous insects of the family Crabronidæ, erected by Taschenberg in 1869 for a single species from Venezuela.
  • noun In gastropods, a fin-like expansion of the foot; an epipodium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Paired unjointed lateral outgrowths used for locomotion by worms such as annelids.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin : para– + Greek pous, pod-, foot; see podium.]

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From the Greek: para, beyond or beside + podia, feet

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