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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In Crustacea, the sixth (penultimate) joint of a developed endopodite, between the carpopodite and the dactylopodite. In a lobster, for example, it is the joint which with the movable dactylopodite makes the nipper or chelate claw. Milne-Edwards; Huxley. Also propodos. See cut under endopodite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean, usually the penultimate joint.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

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  1. Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)

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  1. propodos
  1. endopodite
  1. propoditic
  1. carpopodite
  1. chela
  1. podite

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