poecilopod

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; variegated, manifold + -poda. ] (Zool.) (a) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea). (b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]