gonopod noun2 •A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods. •A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects....a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9... — 1981 formsgonopods
