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▪ I. polypod, n.1 Now rare.|ˈpɒlɪpɒd|
Also 5 pollypod, 7 poli-, polli-, polypode.
[a. OF. polipode (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm., mod.F. polypode), ad. L. Polypodium.]
= polypody.
[c1265Voc. Names Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 556/4 Felix arboratica, i. pollipode, i. eueruern.] 14..Nominale ibid. 711/37 Hoc polipodicum, a pollypod. 1612Drayton Polyolb. xiii. 217 Heere findes he on an Oake Rheum-purging Polipode. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 27 Nor may we here omit to mention the Galls, Missletoe, Polypod, Agaric..Fungus's..and many other useful Excrescencies [of the oak]. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xvi, The bright green polypods and maiden's-hair waved in silent feathery harmony.
▪ II. ˈpolypod, a. and n.2 Zool.
Also polypode.
[a. F. polypode adj., f. Gr. πολυποδ-, stem of πολύπους many-footed: see polyp.]
A. adj. Having many feet or foot-like organs; spec. belonging to the Polypoda, a name for various groups of animals in different classifications, as (a) a former division of insects, corresponding to the modern class Myriapoda or millepeds; (b) a division of worms; (c) of cephalopod molluscs, having more than eight arms or tentacles; (d) of crustaceans, having more than ten feet; (e) [tr. It. polipodo (A. Berlese 1913, in Redia IX. 127)], esp., of a phase in the development of certain insect larvæ, having a segmented abdomen with rudimentary or functional appendages.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 344 Polypod... Having more than eight legs but under fifty. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 179 In the polypod phase the abdomen has acquired its complete segmentation and full number of appendages. 1969R. F. Chapman Insects xx. 400 A second basic form is the polypod larva... The larvae of Lepidoptera, Mecoptera and Tenthredinidae are of the polypod type.
B. n. An animal having many feet; a member of the Polypoda in any sense (see A.).
1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl., Polypodes, a word used by some as a name for the millepedes. 1828Webster, Polypode, an animal having many feet; the milleped or wood⁓louse. 1860Wraxall Life in Sea i. 11 The cachalot lives principally on cuttle-fish and polypods. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley lvi, Like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle. |