Gonopods

Word GONOPODS
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Gonopod: modified male legs on the seventh body segment of some types of millipedes or Diplopoda. Gonopods transfer packets of sperm to females during sex. Male Diplopoda may have one to two gonopods, and may have to form a web to transfer their sperm to a female Diplopoda in reproduction. Urban Dictionary

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But these appendages, called gonopods, don't develop when the animal is an embryo, instead appearing during a molt later in life. ❋ John Timmer (2011)

This new genus was confirmed by analysis of the eighth pair of legs (or gonopods) on the male specimens. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, researchers have finally figured out how the gonopods form: two of the animal's legs retract and degenerate, and the rudiments undergo what's somewhat like a second bit of embryonic development, forming the gonopods. ❋ John Timmer (2011)

My [gonopod] [fell off], [mate]! ❋ Why Do I Know This? (2019)

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