pleuropodium

noun

pleu·​ro·​po·​di·​um

plural -s

1

: either of a pair of glandular organs located on the first abdominal segment of an insect and believed to represent modified appendages

2

: either of a pair of large fleshy lobes of the mantle of a sea hare

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pleur- + -podium

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