PLEOPOD

• PLEOPOD (noun)
  The noun PLEOPOD has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PLEOPOD used as a noun is very rare.

• PLEOPOD (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pleopod; swimmeret

Hypernyms ("pleopod" is a kind of...):

appendage; extremity; member (an external body part that projects from the body)

Holonyms ("pleopod" is a part of...):

lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)

shrimp (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)

isopod (any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling)