Chiropoda

Translingual

Etymology

See chiro- and -pod.

Proper noun

Chiropoda

1. (obsolete) The "hand-footed mammals"; an artificial grouping in Ogilby's taxonomy, consisting of mammals with limbs which terminate in hands or in feet that can be used as hands.

Further reading

• “Chiropoda”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.