Poecilopoda

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poecilopoda \P[oe]`ci*lop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?
     variegated, manifold + -poda.] (Zool.)
     (a) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic
         Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs
         ({Limuloidea}).
     (b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.


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