An abdominal limb or appendage of a crustacean, adapted for swimming; a swimming-foot, pleopod.
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释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > abdominal appendage (5) swimmeret1840 An abdominal limb or appendage of a crustacean, adapted for swimming; a swimming-foot, pleopod. pleopod1856 Each of the forked limbs attached in pairs to the abdomen of a crustacean and used to aid locomotion and in females for carrying eggs; = swimmeret, n.… pleopodite1877 = pleopod, n. uropod1893 Originally: any abdominal appendage of a crustacean. Now spec. each of the sixth and last pair of abdominal appendages of malacostracan crustacea… Subcategories:— plate joining (1) |
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