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  • noun Plural form of polypode.

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  • He maintained the origin of all things from water, and insisted that the polypodes were the first of animated things, and that, from their round bodies and many-shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities.

    Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825

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