1) Appendage 2) Extremity 3) Member
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The term parapodium (Gr. para, beyond or beside + podia, feet) refers to two different organs. In annelids, parapodia are paired, un-jointed lateral outgrowths that bear the chaetae. In several clades of sea snails and sea slugs, `parapodium` refers to lateral fleshy protrusions. ==Polychaete parapodia== Parapodia in polychaetes are either unira.....
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• (n.) One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.
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(from the article `gastropod`) ...it is broadly expanded and serves as an adhesive disk. In pelagic gastropods the foot is a swimming organ. Many prosobranchs and some ... ...segments; and a tail, or pygidium, which may bear anal cirri (fleshy projections) or plaques and a terminal anus. Each body segment following the ... [2 related...
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Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Beside +, dim. Of foot. ... <zoology> One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. ... They may serve for locomotion, respiration, and sensation, and often contain spines or setae. When well developed, a dorsal part, or notopodium, and a ventral part, or neuropodium, are distinguished. ... Source...
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Par`a·po'di·um noun ;
plural Parapodia . [ New Latin , from Greek
para` beside + ..., dim. of ... foot.]
(Zoology) One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also
foot tubercle . » They may serve for locomotion, respiration, and sensati...
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n] - one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing
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parapodium, parapod One of the jointless lateral processes or rudimentary limbs of annelids, which serve as organs of locomotion, and sometimes of sensation or respiration.
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noun one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing
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