Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having foliaceous feet; having the limbs expanded and flattened like leaves; specifically, of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.
- noun A crustacean of the order Phyllopoda.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Phyllopoda. [Also used adjectively.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
branchiopod crustaceans whoseappendages resembleleaves
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Examples
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But this is by no means all, -- not only is there this external resemblance between the thoracic armour of the crustacean and the bivalve shell, but the two sides of the ostracod and phyllopod thorax are connected together also by an adductor muscle!
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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