parapodium मीनिंग इन हिंदी

The anterior parapodium points forward and has tapered ventral cirri.
The posterior parapodium has cushion-like cirri.
Its ventral simple chaetae on each parapodium from about chaetiger 18 are sigmoid and smooth.
Its acicula is solitary on each parapodium, having an enlarged tip which is also rounded.
Anteriorly, the parapodium exhibit two aciculae, one distally bent at a right angle, with an pharyngeal tooth is located on its anterior margin, surrounded by a crown of soft papillae.

संज्ञा.

one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing