pleopod's Usage Examples:

The second maxillipeds are developed into powerful prehensile organs, and the branchiae, instead of being connected with the appendages of head and trunk, are developed on the pleopods, appendages of the abdomen.

The abdomen or pleon carries the remaining six pairs, of which from three to five are called pleopods and the remainder uropods.

Edwards (1879), which is unique in having supplementary ramified branchiae developed at the bases of the pleopods.

The slender pleon has always six distinct segments, the sixth carrying two-branched uropods, the preceding five armed with no pleopods in the female, whereas in the male the number of pairs varies from five to none.

Synonyms:

shrimp, lobster, extremity, appendage, isopod, swimmeret, member,

Antonyms:

nonmember,