Definition of "parapodia" []

• Plural form of parapodium. (noun)

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• "The creamy pink worms have tiny, fleshy, almost leglike projections called parapodia, which function during movement and respiration, said Stetson Everett of Eastern Sea Worm Co. in Hancock."
• "Some polychaetes such as the sea mouse Aphrodite aculeate also bear a ventral muscular, creeping sole; myzostomids have a circular body with fused parapodia, which also forms a ventral foot like structure."
• "The unpaired fins of fish were originally paired and possibly arose from the coalescence of rows of parapodia."