apodal

[ ap-uh-dl ]

adjectiveZoology.

having no distinct feet or footlike members.
belonging or pertaining to the orders Apoda and Apodes, comprising various groups of animals without limbs.

Origin of apodal

1760–70; <Greek apod-, stem of ápous footless (see a-⁶, -pod) + -al¹

Also apodous.

Words Nearby apodal

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How to use apodal in a sentence

The male only is winged; the female is very like an apodal larva, the larva being an active hexapod.
The Insect World | Louis Figuier
A family of fishes belonging to the apodal section of the malacopterygii.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley
apodal Fishes, the name applied to such malacopterous fishes as want ventral fins.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for apodal

apodal

apodous

/ (ˈæpədəl) /

adjective

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

Origin of apodal

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

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