Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parapodium

Parapodium , noun

[New Latin, from Greek para` beside + {not transcribed}, dim. of {not transcribed} foot.]

(Zoology) One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

They may serve for locomotion, respiration, and sensation, and often contain spines or seta. When well developed, a dorsal part, or notopodium, and a ventral part, or neuropodium, are distinguished.