-pod

a combining form meaning “one having a foot” of the kind or number specified by the initial element; often corresponding to Neo-Latin class names ending in -poda, with -pod, used in English to name a single member of such a class:

cephalopod.

Compare -ped.

Origin

< Neo-Latin < Greek -pod-, stem of -pous, adj. derivative of poús foot

British Dictionary definitions for -pod

-pod

combining form

indicating a certain type or number of feet: arthropod, tripod

Word Origin

from Greek -podos footed, from pous foot

-pod in Science

-pod
A suffix meaning "foot." It is used in the scientific names of the members of many groups of organisms, such as arthropod, an organism having "jointed feet," and sauropod, a dinosaur having "lizard feet." It is also used in the names of different kinds of limbs or limblike body parts, such as pseudopod, the "false foot" of an amoeba.