apodal

American  

[ap-uh-dl] / ˈæp ə dl /

adjective

Zoology.

1. having no distinct feet or footlike members.

2. belonging or pertaining to the orders Apoda and Apodes, comprising various groups of animals without limbs.

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apodal British  

/ ˈæpədəl /

adjective

1. (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins

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Etymology

Origin of apodal

1760–70; < Greek apod-, stem of ápous footless ( a- ⁶, -pod ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Though the larvæ of bees are apodal, they are not condemned to absolute immobility in their cells; for they can move by a spiral motion.

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Obviously the mystical "security," the "apodal sufficiency" yielded by the anaesthetic revelation, are very different moods of mind from aught that rationalism can claim to father—more active, prouder, more heroic.

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I tell you all this because I don't want to pose as a kind of apodal angel of mercy.

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