phyllopodn.adj.
/ˈfɪləpɒd/, U.S. /ˈfɪləˌpɑd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A crustacean of the subclass Phyllopoda (which includes water fleas and fairy shrimps), characterized by flattened, leaflike appendages on the trunk which are often used for swimming or collecting food particles. Phyllopoda was formerly a class, but is now a subclass within the class Branchiopoda.
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phyllopod1852
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 15 This part of the body in the Phyllopods is often very short.
1865 Athenæum No. 1983. 571/2 The little modest ostracods and phyllopods.
1894 W. Bateson Materials for Study of Variation ii. 91 In Insecta, and in Crustacea excepting the Phyllopods, the fundamental numbers [of segments] are definite.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xi. 184 Another well-known Phyllopod..is Apus, a giant among the lower crustaceans, for it is over an inch in length.
1954 R. E. Coker Streams, Lakes, Ponds xiii. 227 The most primitive types are grouped in the subclass Branchiopoda, comprising the phyllopods,..or fairy-shrimp.
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xvi. 247 Phyllopod..is an old name for marine arthropods with rows of lacy gills.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the crustacean subclass Phyllopoda.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > belonging to Phyllopoda
phyllopodous1835
phyllopod1856
phyllopodal1876
1856 Rep. 25th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1855 (Notices & Abstr.) 90 Partly phyllopod and partly pœcilopod, in its abdominal segmentation.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 239 The form of the Phyllopod foot.
1920 W. Patten Grand Strategy of Evol. ix. 211 The more primitive arthropods, such as the phyllopod crustacea.
1998 J. F. Talling & J. Lemoalle Ecol. Dynamics Trop. Inland Waters v. 282 A still more extreme situation of hydrological controls is provided by temporary rainpools bearing often dense populations of phyllopod Crustacea.
Derivatives
phylloˈpodal adj. now rare = sense B.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > belonging to Phyllopoda
phyllopodous1835
phyllopod1856
phyllopodal1876
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 580 This species (N[ebalia]longipes)..is remarkable in many ways, as its legs are far less ‘phyllopodal’ than in the other species known before.
1878 Encycl. Brit. VI. 650/2 (note) The maxilla of the Decapod larva is a sort of Phyllopodal foot.
phylloˈpodan n. and adj. now rare = phyllopod n. and adj.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Phyllopodan.
1920 Amer. Naturalist 54 403 This theory has now been completely upset, for Walcott has found several undoubted branchiopods with appendages in the Middle Cambrian, and the best preserved of them (Burgessia) show that the limbs were not phyllopodan, but like those of trilobites.
1977 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 280 439 Fedotov..was unable to accept Raymond's ideas, since he accepted the abdomen, but did not consider Naraoia to be a phyllopodan or even a crustacean.
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1869 W. S. Dallas tr. E. Mecznikow in tr. F. Müller Facts for Darwin 84 A Phyllopodiform Decapod [Ger. eine phyllopodenartige Decapode].
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 862 In Nebalia bipes the body is rather slender and somewhat compressed, the anterior half protected by a carapace, beyond the lower edge of which the broad thin phyllopodiform feet do not project.
1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 475 The appendages of the pygidium are ontogenetically the youngest, and express the typical phyllopodiform structure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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