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epipodite Anat.|ɛˈpɪpədaɪt|
[f. epipod-ium + -ite.]
A long, curved appendage to the basal joint or coxopodite of the anterior ambulatory limbs of some Crustacea.
1869Nicholson Zool. 176 The protopodite bears a process which serves to keep the gills apart, and is termed the epipodite. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. vi. 328 Each epipodite is, in fact, expanded at its upper extremity into a broad bilobed membrane.
Hence eˌpipoˈditic a., resembling an epipodite.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. vi. 364 The branchiæ..resemble not a little the epipoditic branchiæ of Astacus. |