swimmeretn.
/ˈswɪmərət/ An abdominal limb or appendage of a crustacean, adapted for swimming; a swimming-foot, pleopod.
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1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 416 The second family of Decapoda,—Decapoda Macrura..,—is distinguished by having at the extremity of the tail, on each side, appendages, ordinarily forming a swimmeret [Fr. nageoire].
1874 A. Wilson Stud. Guide Zool. 96 All the varied segments and appendages of the lobster—eyes, feelers, jaws, legs, and swimmerets—are merely modifications of a common structural plan.
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish i. 20 Attached to the sternal side of every ring of the abdomen of the female there is a pair of limbs, called swimmerets.
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