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maxilliped, -pede Zool.|mækˈsɪlɪpɛd, -piːd| [f. maxilla + L. ped-em, pēs foot.] A ‘foot-jaw’ (see foot n. 35). Cf. jaw-foot s.v. jaw n.1 7. Foot-jaw was app. the first term used, and this was rendered by maxilliped, which in turn was translated jaw-foot.
1846Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. Ser. ii. I. 226 Order Entomostraca. Tribe Cyclopacea... Maxillipeds, one pair: sometimes simple maxillæ. 1870Nicholson Man. Zool. 207 Two pairs of maxillipedes. 1883Packard in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Nov. 342 They are somewhat analogous to the maxillipedes of Crustacea. Hence maxilliˈpedary a., pertaining to maxillipedes.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 311 The sternal regions of the three maxillipedary somites have the same characters. |