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- noun Plural form of
maxilliped .
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Examples
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The limbs studied, called maxillipeds, move rhythmically to deflect the exhalent water currents emerging from the gills.
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The remaining six pairs of thoracic appendages are used for swimming, as well as for conveying water to the maxillipeds for filtering.
Crustacea 2008
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In order to complete this arrangement the outer maxillipeds, as indeed has long been known, bear a projecting ridge furnished with a dense fringe of hairs, which commences in front near their median line and passes backwards and outwards to the hinder angle of the buccal frame.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Of natatory feet (afterwards maxillipeds) only two pairs are present; the third (not, as Spence Bate thinks, the first) is entirely wanting, or, like the five following pairs of feet, present only as a minute bud.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The remaining six pairs of thoracic appendages are used for swimming, as well as for conveying water to the maxillipeds for filtering.
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[2] They have 5 pairs of swimming legs (swimmerets) on the abdomen, 5 pairs of walking legs, and 3 pairs of maxillipeds which help them feed.
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[2] They have 5 pairs of swimming legs (swimmerets) on the abdomen, 5 pairs of walking legs, and 3 pairs of maxillipeds which help them feed.
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The two white strips (maxillipeds) at the mouth move like sideways lips and teeth.
BC Bloggers 2009
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