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Definition of Polypods
1. polypod [n] - See also: polypod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypods
Literary usage of Polypods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joseph Pennell (1904)
"And near the sea is plenty of oysters, as well as crabs, and polypods of ...
The shells of the jointed polypods that you see in Paris clinging to the ropes ..."
2. At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1893)
"In other cases these polypods clasped great boulders in their unyielding embrace,
... The only way of accounting for the empty polypods seemed to be to ..."
3. At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1893)
"In other cases these polypods clasped great boulders in their unyielding embrace,
... The only way of accounting for the empty polypods seemed to be to ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... lobsters and crabs, the terrestrial polypods (centipedes and wood lice), and
the aquatic, polypods (amphipoda, and isopoda of Latreille). II. ..."
5. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1826)
"But the right of these worms to be considered as members of the same Class with
the Hexapods and polypods at present appears rather problematical, ..."
6. A History of Greater Britain as Well England as Scotland by John Major, Aeneas James George Mackay, Thomas Graves Law (1892)
"At these seasons the tide is at its lowest, aiui the polypods and crabs take
shelter under the rocks by the sea. A hook is fastened to the end of a stick, ..."
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