Parapodia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 167 anagrams from letters in parapodia (aaadioppr).
First recorded in 1875-80; para-1 + -podium
The parapodia have, besides the bristles, a second set of hair-like appendages, called cirri.
The lobes of the parapodia are widely separated and fringed with membrane, appearing like double parapodia.
The parapodia are sometimes divided into distinct lobes or branches.
The bristles emanate from outgrowths of the body known as parapodia, which are practically limbs.
parapodia are often lacking on the posterior parts and are usually without cirri.
Breathing is carried on over the whole surface of the body, and especially in parts of the lobes of the parapodia called gills.
The parapodia, as in the Capitellidae, are hardly developed.
No other member of the group is known to have any trace of setae or parapodia at any stage of development.
On the ventral side of the parapodia are whitish tubercles with a dark spot in the middle.
The presence of parapodia distinguish this from other groups of Chaetopoda.
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