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The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.

Same as Scaphopoda.

or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis.

The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

Same as Malacopoda.

One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod.

Same as Malacopoda.

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

g a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

ding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630). -- Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. -- Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. -- Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomera…

Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand. Thackeray.

An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air- breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnæa and Planorbis.

A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.