• (n.) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.
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(from the article `crustacean`) ...and the classes Cephalocarida and Remipedia, or they may be differentiated into distinct groups. In the copepods the first pair of trunk limbs is ... Malacostracans (except for leptostracans) typically have one to three pairs of thoracic limbs modified as accessory mouthparts. These maxillipeds (or ......
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Max·il'li·ped noun [
Maxilla + Latin
pes ,
pedis , foot.]
(Zoology) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillæ. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also
jawfoot , and
foot jaw...Found on
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