-pod
a combining form meaning “one having a foot” of the kind or number specified by the initial element; often corresponding to neo-latin cl-ss names ending in -poda, with -pod, used in english to name a single member of such a cl-ss:
cephalopod.
compare -ped.
-pod
combining form
indicating a certain type or number of feet arthropod, tripod
word origin
from greek -podos footed, from pous foot
-pod
a suffix meaning “foot.” it is used in the scientific names of the members of many groups of organisms, such as arthropod, an organism having “jointed feet,” and sauropod, a dinosaur having “lizard feet.” it is also used in the names of different kinds of limbs or limblike body parts, such as pseudopod, the “false foot” of an amoeba.
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- -poda
a combining form meaning “those having feet” of the kind or number specified by the initial element, used in the names of cl-sses in zoology: cephalopoda. compare -pod.
- -pode
variant of -podium: pseudopode. -pod combining form indicating a certain type or number of feet arthropod, tripod word origin from greek -podos footed, from pous foot
- -podium
a combining form meaning “footlike part” of an organism, used in the formation of compound words: monopodium; pseudo-podium. also, -pode. -podium combining form a part resembling a foot pseudopodium word origin from new latin: footlike; see podium
- -podous
a combining form meaning “footed, having a foot” of the kind or number specified by the initial element; often occurring in adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -pod: cephalopodous. -podous combining form having feet of a certain kind or number cephalopodous
- -poiesis
a combining form meaning “making, formation,” used in the formation of compound words: hematopoiesis. -poiesis combining form indicating the act of making or producing something specified haematopoiesis derived forms -poietic, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek, from poiēsis a making; see poesy -poiesis suff. production; creation; formation: hemopoiesis.