Gonopod
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gonopod is a noun meaning (zoology) A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
Meaning
(zoology) A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
More Meanings
- (entomology) A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.
Example Sentences
...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9.
Word Forms
- gonopods
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gonopore, harpagone, gonapophysis, gynecophore, exopodite, pogonophore.
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