protopod i a

Plural of pro to podium. pro to podial (prō-to-pō'di-al), a. [ Each appendage consists of three divisions ported on a pro to podite , or basal division. sup Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 244. Probably the coxoand bas i podite [of the ambulatory leg of a crawfish] together answer to the pro to podite of the abdominal appendages, the remaining joints representing the endopodite. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 269, note. pro to poditic (proto-po-dit'ik), a . [ protopo dite + -ic.] Of or pertaining to a pro to podite. pro to podium (pro-to-pō'di-um), n.; pl. proto podia (-a). [NL., πρῶτος , first, + NL. podium , q. v.] In Mollusca , the primitive or typical podium; the foot proper, irrespective of its various modifications. The valve of the siphon [in cephalopods] is a true foot, or pro to podium , and the two lateral folds are pteropod i a. Gill , Smithsonian Report, 1880, p. 361.