poecilopoda
(Science: zoology) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (limuloidea).
By some recent writers applied to the merostomata.
Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Variegated, manifold – -poda.
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