Anat. [f. EPIPOD-IUM + -ITE.] A long, curved appendage to the basal joint or coxopodite of the anterior ambulatory limbs of some Crustacea.

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1869.  Nicholson, Zool., 176. The protopodite bears a process which serves to keep the gills apart, and is termed the epipodite.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 328. Each epipodite is, in fact, expanded at its upper extremity into a broad, bilobed membrane.

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  Hence Epipoditic a., resembling an epipodite.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 364. The branchiæ … resemble not a little the epipoditic branchiæ of Astacus.

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