pleopod
Meaning of pleopod
noun
- One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.
In decapods such as lobsters, pleopods are legs mainly used for swimming but sometimes used for brooding eggs or catching food. In some species certain pleopods of an animal may have been adapted to special functions such as reproduction.
Information about pleopod
- It is a name.
- The plural form of pleopod is: pleopods.
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Hyphenation of pleopod
pleo-pod
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pleopod is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
pleopod synonyms
Meaning swimmeret:
Words that rhyme with pleopod
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