Pœˊci-lop′o-da
,
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] variegated, manifold +
-poda
.]
(Zool.)
(a)
Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (
Limuloidea
).
(b)
By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.