PARAPODIUM Synonyms

• an external body part that projects from the body

• an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)

• the greatest or utmost degree

• the outermost or farthest region or point

• that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

• one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

• any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

• (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

• either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

• the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

• any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

• one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)

• anything that belongs to a set or class

• an external body part that projects from the body

• an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations)

• the male sex organ

• a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

• a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

• (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

• a periodical that is published by a special interest group

• wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the act of projecting out from something