a. [f. EPIPODI-UM + -AL.] Pertaining to or resembling the epipodium.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., viii. 510. There are very large epipodial lobes, by the aid of which some species propel themselves like Pteropods.
1878. Bell, trans. Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 337. The epipodial gill is arranged circularly in the Placophora.
