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Webster 1913 Edition


Heteropoda


Hetˊe-rop′o-da

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] other +
-poda
.]
(Zool.)
An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as
Carinaria
and
Atlanta
, have thin glassy shells.

Definition 2024


Heteropoda

Heteropoda

See also: heteropoda

Translingual

Proper noun

Heteropoda

  1. A group of Crustacea, some having fourteen feet.
  2. A subclass of gastropods using the foot as a swimming organ.
  3. A group of echinoderms.
  4. (Heteropoda f) A taxonomic genus within the family Sparassidae – many of the huntsman spiders.

Hyponyms

genus of Sparassidae