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apodal
[ ap-uh-dl ]
adjective
, Zoology.
- having no distinct feet or footlike members.
- belonging or pertaining to the orders Apoda and Apodes, comprising various groups of animals without limbs.
apodal
/ ˈæpədəl /
adjective
- (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of apodal1
C18: from Greek apous from a- 1+ pous foot
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Example Sentences
The male only is winged; the female is very like an apodal larva, the larva being an active hexapod.
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A family of fishes belonging to the apodal section of the malacopterygii.
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Apodal Fishes, the name applied to such malacopterous fishes as want ventral fins.
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