Dictionary entry

Pœcilopoda

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Pœ′ci‐lop″o‐da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � variegated, manifold + -poda.] (Zoöl.) (a) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea). (b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.