pteropod
Meanings
noun
- Any of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; a sea butterfly.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “a wing, a feather”) + ποδός (podós), genitive singular of πούς (poús, “a foot, a leg”). Equivalent to ptero- + -pod.
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