pleopods
Meaning of pleopods
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 pleopods
- It is a name.
- The singular form of pleopods is: pleopod.
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Hyphenation of pleopods
pleopods
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- pleopods is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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