\P[oe]`ci*lop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?
variegated, manifold + -poda.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic
    Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs
    ({Limuloidea}).
(b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.