Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the character of a uropod; pertaining to uropods: as, uropodal appendages.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a uropod.

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  • adjective zoology Of or pertaining to a uropod.

Etymologies

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uropod +‎ -al

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Examples

  • The new species is distinguished from all the known species of the genus by the combination of broadly rounded rostrum, narrower eyes and the spination of the uropodal endopod and telson.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

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