lobopod

English

Etymology

Shortened form of lobopodium.

Noun

lobopod (plural lobopods)

1. (zoology) Any of the numerous stub-legs of a lobopodian; a lobopodium.
   • 2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Onychophorans […] have cylindrical segmented bodies with many pairs of legs called lobopods, which are essentially fluid-filled bags.

2. (zoology) A panarthropod of the extinct phylum †Lobopodia.
   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 261:

     The early lobopods have a melange of characteristics that makes their position on the tree of life difficult to pin down.