gonopod

noun 2

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noun

1

A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.

2

A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.

...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...

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