lobopod
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortened form of lobopodium.
Noun
[edit]lobopod (plural lobopods)
- (zoology) Any of the numerous stub-legs of a lobopodian; a lobopodium.
- 2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Onychophorans […] have cylindrical segmented bodies with many pairs of legs called lobopods, which are essentially fluid-filled bags.
- (zoology) A panarthropod of the extinct phylum †Lobopodia.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 261:
- The early lobopods have a melange of characteristics that makes their position on the tree of life difficult to pin down.