podo-, pod-, -poda, -pod, -pode, -podium, -podia, -podial, -podous, -pody
(Greek: foot, feet)
In zoology, a swimming organ or a limb (as of a mollusk) adapted for swimming: The nectopods are appendages that some invertebrates with a soft unsegmented body, such as squids, use for swimming.
octopod, octopodan, octopodous
Eight-footed (with eight feet); an animal having eight feet; specifically, an octopus, or other member of the suborder Octopoda of cephalopods.
Octopoda
An order of cephalopod mollusks, including the octopus and paper nautilus characterized by a saclike body, eight arms with rows of suckers, and no internal shell.
ornithopod, ornithopodous
Having feet like those of a bird; belonging to the Ornithopoda, a group or sub-order of extinct saurians, containing herbivorous Dinosauria, whose hind feet closely resembled those of birds in their structure.
pachypod, pachypodous
Having a large, thick foot.
parapodium, parapod
One of the jointless lateral processes or rudimentary limbs of annelids, which serve as organs of locomotion, and sometimes of sensation or respiration.
A myriapod of the order Pauropoda, resembling centipedes, but of very minute size.
peropod, peropodous
Having rudimentary hind limbs, as certain serpents; belonging to the division Peropoda of serpents, including the pythons, boas, etc.
phyllopod, phyllopodal, phyllopodous
A member of the Phyllopoda, a group of entomostracous crustaceans, having lamellate or foliaceous swimming feet; a leaf-footed crustacean.
planipodia
A condition in which the feet are flat; flat footed.
platypod
A broad-footed animal; having broad or flat feet; specifically, belonging to the group Platypoda of monotrematous mammals (typical genus Platypus), or to the group Platypoda of gastropod molluscs, having a broad flat foot adapted for crawling; also in Orinthology, having the toes joined so as to form a broad sole, syndactyl.
platypodia
Wide feet.
platypodic
Having wide or broad feet.
podagra
Pertaining to gout; gouty.
Severe pain in the foot, especially that of typical gout in the big toe: Dr. Simmons told Janet that her extreme pain in her foot, especially in her big toe, was termed podagra and that was why she had difficulty walking.