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Definition of Macropod
1. n. Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.
Definition of Macropod
1. Noun. A marsupial of the family ''Macropodidae'', which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree kangaroos and pademelons. ¹
2. Noun. Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; — called also spider crab. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Macropod
1. a marsupial [n -S]
Medical Definition of Macropod
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Macropod
Literary usage of Macropod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"long-footed : see macropod.] A genus of spider-crabs or sea-spiders founded by
WE Leach in 1813 upon the common British species formerly known as ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1884)
"joint of the subject before us with those referred to, notwithstanding that it
has much greater affinity with them than with that of any macropod or ..."
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