-pod

-pod or -pode

suff.

Foot; footlike part: pleopod.

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[From New Latin -podium (from Greek podion; see podium) and from New Latin -poda (from Greek, pl. of pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots).]

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-pod, -pode

n combining form

indicating a certain type or number of feet arthropod tripod

[from Greek -podos footed, from pous foot]

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-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.