a. Zool. [irreg. f. Gr. τἆξις (gen. τάξεως) arrangement + -ποδος -footed (f. πούς foot) + -OUS.] Having each one of the carpal or tarsal bones of one row articulated with one of the other row; opposed to diplarthrous. So Taxeopod, a. = taxeopodous; sb. a member of the division Taxeopoda of ungulate mammals (comprising the Proboscidea and the extinct Condylarthra), having this arrangement of the tarsal bones; Taxeopody, taxeopodous condition.
1887. E. D. Cope, in Amer. Nat., XXI. 987. All ungulates in passing from the taxeopodous to the diplarthrous stages, traversed the amblyopodous. Ibid. (1890), May, 471. In the equine line, after the development of diplarthry in the posterior foot, a tendency to revert to taxeopody appears.
1891. Cent. Dict., Taxeopod, a. and sb.
1897. Cope, in Amer. Nat., June, 485. In this order of Ungulates the carpus is taxeopodous.
