PLEOPODS Synonyms

• an external body part that projects from the body

• a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

• a part that is joined to something larger

• 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

• a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

• the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming

• 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

• something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold

• any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion

• one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming