Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no limbs, feet, or footlike appendages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. An amphibian of the order Apoda; a cæcilian.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of snakes and eels) naturally footless
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + ποδός (podos), genitive of πούς (pous, "foot") with the suffix -al. (Wiktionary)
- From Greek apous : a-, without; see a-1 + pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I tell you all this because I don't want to pose as a kind of apodal angel of mercy.”
“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?”
“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).”
“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).”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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,”
“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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