polypod

[ pol-ee-pod ]

adjective

1. (of insect larvae) having many feet.

polypod

/ ˈpɒlɪˌpɒd /

adjective

1. (esp of insect larvae) having many legs or similar appendages

noun

1. an animal of this type

Word History and Origins

Origin of polypod¹

< Italian (1913) < Greek, stem of polýpous many-footed; polyp

Example Sentences

Herbivorous; polypod; antenniferous: body short, oblong, depressed, margined.

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This was all good, as far as it went, but Polypod cried harder and harder.

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Polypod had been quite ill; a touch of fever, the doctor said.

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It never had occurred to anybody in that house that Polypod could be lonely before.

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Polypod did not stop to guess; she jumped down and peeped in at a corner.

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