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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no limbs, feet, or footlike appendages.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.
  • noun An amphibian of the order Apoda; a cæcilian.

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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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Greek apous : a-, without; see a– + pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + ποδός (podos), genitive of πούς (pous, "foot") with the suffix -al.

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