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 ( see a- ⁶, -pod) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Figures of apodal reptiles, with feathers represented on their heads, occur in Sikyatki pictography, although there is no resemblance in the markings of their bodies to those of modern pictures.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

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.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

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.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry