apodal

[ ap-uh-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.

apodal

/ ˈæpədəl /

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of apodal¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of apodal¹

C18: from Greek apous from a- ¹+ pous foot

Example Sentences

All fruit and forest trees suffer from these curious insects, which in the female sex always remain apterous and apodal and live attached to the bark, leaf and fruit, hidden beneath variously formed scale-like coverings.

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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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