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- noun Plural form of
gonopod .
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But these appendages, called gonopods, don't develop when the animal is an embryo, instead appearing during a molt later in life.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2011
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This new genus was confirmed by analysis of the eighth pair of legs (or gonopods) on the male specimens.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Now, researchers have finally figured out how the gonopods form: two of the animal's legs retract and degenerate, and the rudiments undergo what's somewhat like a second bit of embryonic development, forming the gonopods.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2011
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