Definitions
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 .
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- noun zoology Paired unjointed
lateral outgrowths used forlocomotion byworms such asannelids .
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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A child who is paraplegic learns to walk with a plywood parapodium made by village rehabilitations workers.
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