Pleopod

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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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: swimmeret
plural: Pleopods
possessive: Pleopod's
pluralpossessive: Pleopods'

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