Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no limbs, feet, or footlike appendages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An amphibian of the order Apoda; a cæcilian.
- Having no feet, or supposed to have none; footless: applied specifically in zoology to members of the several groups called
Apoda or Apodes, especially to the fishes so called.
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- adjective biology without
feet or foot-like body parts;legless
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of snakes and eels) naturally footless
Etymologies
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Examples
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I tell you all this because I don't want to pose as a kind of apodal angel of mercy.
The Red Planet William John Locke 1896
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The lowest Vertebrata [34] are perfectly limbless, and if, as most Darwinians would probably assume, the primeval vertebrate creature was also apodal, how are the preservation and development of the first rudiments of limbs to be accounted for -- such rudiments being, on the hypothesis in question, infinitesimal and functionless?
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Pedal tubercle: on the thoracic and abdominal rings of caterpillars: on the anterior side of leg-base and, correspondingly, on apodal segments: is VII of the abdomen where it consists of three setae: VI of the thorax where the setae are not numbered: constant (Dyar).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Adventral tubercle: on the abdominal segments of caterpillars on the inner base of the leg, and correspondingly on the apodal segments; constant: is number VIII of the abdominal series (Dyar).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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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.
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 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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While from the worn character of the middle of the food bowl illustrated in plate CXXXII, _b_, it is not possible to discover whether the animal was apodal or not from the crosshatching of the body and the resemblance of the appendages of the head to those of the figure last considered, it appears probable that this pictograph likewise was intended to represent a snake of mystic character.
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 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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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.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis,
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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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.
New observations on the natural history of bees Fran��ois Huber 1790
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