Usually means: Tail appendage in some crustaceans.
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  1. uropod: Merriam-Webster
  2. uropod: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uropod: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uropod: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uropod: Wordnik
  6. Uropod: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. uropod: Wiktionary
  8. uropod: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uropod: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. uropod: Dictionary.com
  11. Uropod (immunology), Uropod: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Uropod: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. uropod: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Uropod: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. uropod: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. uropod: FreeDictionary.org
  17. uropod: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. uropod: Encyclopedia

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  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (uropod)

noun:  (anatomy) either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans.
noun:  (immunology) the hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis.

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