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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

;

pl.

Propodia

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[NL. See

(Zool.)

(a)

The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.

(b)

The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

[Written also

propodeum

propodium ‎(plural propodia)

(zoology) The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.
(zoology) The first abdominal segment, when it forms a unit with the thorax of a hymenopterous insect in the group Apocrita.