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polypod

[ pol-ee-pod ]

adjective

  1. (of insect larvae) having many feet.


polypod

/ ˈ±èÉ’±ôɪˌ±èÉ’»å /

adjective

  1. (esp of insect larvae) having many legs or similar appendages
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noun

  1. an animal of this type
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of polypod1

< Italian (1913) < Greek, stem of ±è´Ç±ôý±è´Ç³Ü²õ many-footed; polyp
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Epilepsy.—"It hath beene of later experience found also to be effectual against the falling sicknesse, that divers have been cured thereby; for after the taking of the Decoct. manipulor. ii. c. polypod. quercin. contus. ℥iv. in cerevisia, they that have been troubled with it twenty-six years, and have fallen once in a weeke, or two or three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in fourteen or fifteen moneths, that is until the writing hereof."

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There he found Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle, or a well-fed calf of Proteus.

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