peraeopod

English

Alternative forms

• perepod

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“on the opposite side”) + -pod.

Noun

peraeopod (plural peraeopods or peraeopoda)

1. (zoology) One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “peraeopod”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rope-a-dope