apodal

[ ap-uh-dl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

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

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Origin of apodal¹

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

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Origin of apodal¹

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

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The male only is winged; the female is very like an apodal larva, the larva being an active hexapod.

A family of fishes belonging to the apodal section of the malacopterygii.

Apodal Fishes, the name applied to such malacopterous fishes as want ventral fins.

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