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- noun Plural form of
polypode .
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He maintained the origin of all things from water, and insisted that the polypodes were the first of animated things, and that, from their round bodies and many-shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities.
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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