gnathopodite

English edit

Noun edit

gnathopodite (plural gnathopodites)

(zoology) Any leg-like appendage of a crustacean that is modified to serve as a jaw.

Hyponyms edit

maxilliped

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gnathopodite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)