pleopod

Questions about pleopod

What is another word for pleopod?

It depends which pleopod you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are swimmeret. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pleopod?

WordNet records no antonym for pleopod. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pleopod come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pleopod

• Full entry for pleopodAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pleopodWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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