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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A foot or leg fitted for swimming; a natatorial limb; in crustaceans, a swimmeret: correlated with walking-foot and foot-jaw. Such feet are usually abdominal, and are technically called pleopods. See cut under Apus.

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