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‖ metapodium|mɛtəˈpəʊdɪəm| [mod.L., f. Gr. µετα- meta- + ποδ-, πούς foot.] 1. Anat. = metatarsus.
1856in Mayne Expos. Lex. 2. The posterior lobe of the foot in molluscs. Also anglicized metapode |ˈmɛtəpəʊd|.
1853Huxley in Phil. Trans. CXLIII. i. 36 The tail or metapodium is subcylindrical at its base. 1875Nicholson Man. Zool. xlvii. (ed. 4) 342 In the Heteropoda..and in the Wingshells (Strombidæ), the foot exhibits a division into three portions—an anterior, the ‘propodium’; a middle, the ‘mesopodium’; and a posterior lobe, or ‘metapodium’. |