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Webster 1913 Edition

Uropod

U′ro-pod

,
Noun.
[2d
uro-
+
-pod
.]
(Zool.)
Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of
Crustacea
, and
Stomapoda
.

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