Definition of Podites

1. podite [n] - See also: podite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podites

podhead
podheads
podia
podial
podiatric
podiatric medicine
podiatries
podiatrist
podiatrists
podiatry
podical
podiceps
podicipitiform seabird
podismus
podite
podites (current term)
poditic
poditis
podium
podiums
podlet
podlets
podley
podleys
podlike
podo-
podobranch
podobranchia
podobranchs
podobromidrosis

Literary usage of Podites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia (1895)
"Originally the names were longer, all being podites, ... As the antennae of the Lobster are homologous with podites, it is a wonder that a hundred names had ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"... at first sight, any obvious resemblance to the foliaceous limbs of Apus, nor, except for the imperfectly jointed filaments of the exo- podites and ..."

3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1877)
"... their functions being performed by the endo- podites of some of the abdominal members, which are soft and vascular. The three anterior pairs of thoracic ..."

4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"... same time as the endo- podites become functional. At the same time the antennae become profoundly modified. The anterior antennae shed their long hairs, ..."

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