metapode

See also: métapode

English

Etymology

From New Latin metapodium, from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) + πούς (poús). By surface analysis, meta- +‎ -pode.

Noun

metapode (plural metapodes)

(zoology) The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

Comeronyms

mesopodium

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “metapode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

demotape, demo tape