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

Epilepsy.—"It hath beene of later experience found also to be effectual against the falling sicknesse, that divers have been cured thereby; for after the taking of the Decoct. manipulor. ii. c. polypod. quercin. contus. ℥iv. in cerevisia, they that have been troubled with it twenty-six years, and have fallen once in a weeke, or two or three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in fourteen or fifteen moneths, that is until the writing hereof."

From Project Gutenberg

There he found Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle, or a well-fed calf of Proteus.

From Project Gutenberg