pedigerousadj.
/pᵻˈdɪdʒ(ə)rəs/, /pɛˈdɪdʒ(ə)rəs/, U.S. /pəˈdɪdʒ(ə)rəs/ Zoology.
Bearing feet or legs. Cf. pediferous adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective]
footeda1387
pedal1625
pedate1816
pedigerous1826
pedalian1830
podalic1839
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 581 In the hexapods..there are usually three pedigerous segments.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 279 Of the twenty pedigerous segments, the first eleven have each one pair of appendages.
1964 Amer. Midland Naturalist 71 467 The drawing of a male, dorsal aspect, apparently has 15 pedigerous segments and shows the posterior half of the abdomen without either muscular somites or intestine.
2000 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 129 1 Females..possess a large area of flexible integument between the cephalosome and the first pedigerous somite which is suggestive of a gorging feeding strategy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1826