Associations to the word «Pleopod»

Wiktionary

PLEOPOD, noun. (zoology) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.

Dictionary definition

PLEOPOD, noun. One of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope