Parapodium Definition

părə-pōdē-əm
parapodia
noun
One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychaete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.
American Heritage
A winglike extension of the foot of certain gastropods, such as the sea butterflies, used for swimming.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Parapodium

Noun

Singular:
parapodium
Plural:
parapodia

Origin of Parapodium

  • New Latin para– Greek pous, pod- foot podium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Greek: para, beyond or beside + podia, feet

    From Wiktionary

Parapodium Sentence Examples

  • Typically, the parapodium consists of two processes of the body on each side, each of which bears a bundle of setae; these two divisions of the "limb" are termed.

  • The notopodium may be rudimentary or absent and the entire parapodium reduced to the merest ridge or even completely unrepresented.

  • Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).

  • The dorsal surface of the kidney extends to the left beyond the shell-chamber beneath the skin in the space between the shell-chamber and the left parapodium.

  • It is probable also, as already mentioned, that the leaf-like appendages of the Phyllopoda are of a primitive type, and attempts have been made to refer their structure to that of the Annelid parapodium.

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