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Meaning of gonopod | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
  2. A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.

Examples

“...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

gonopodium gonopore gonorrhea gonorrhoea gonorrhϾ gonorrhoeic

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