maxilliped

noun

max·​il·​li·​ped mak-ˈsi-lə-ˌped 

: any of the crustacean appendages that comprise the first pair or first three pairs situated next behind the maxillae

Word History

Etymology

maxilla + -i- + -ped, after New Latin maxillipedes and French pieds-machoires

Note: The New Latin and French terms were introduced by the French zoologist Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) in Encyclopédie méthodique - Histoire naturelle, tome dixième, Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes (Paris, 1825), p. 123.

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above