Apus Definition

āpəs
noun
A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Musca and Pavo.
American Heritage
A S constellation near the celestial pole.
Webster's New World

Plural form of APU.

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Synonyms:
  • genus Apus
pronoun

(astronomy): A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a bird of paradise.

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Origin of Apus

  • Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin apūs, from Ancient Greek ἄπους (apous, “sand martin”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πούς (pous, “foot”) (the birds rarely show their feet).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin apūs a kind of swallow from Greek apous without feet, sand martin a- without a–1 pous foot ped- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Apus Sentence Examples

  • It is true that in the lower Crustacea (Apus, &c.) we have evidence of the gradual movement forward of the nerve-ganglia belonging to these FIG.

  • Possibly, however, an investigation of the development of the median eyes of some Crustacea(Apus,Palaemon)may prove them to be diplostichous in origin.

  • A minute entosternite having the above-described structure is found in the Crustacean Apus between the bases of the mandibles, and also in the Decapoda in a similar position, but in no Crustacean does it attain to any size or importance.

  • This is a very definite and remarkable agreement, since such a reticular gonocoel is not found in Crustacea (except in the male Apus).

  • It has been insisted, by those who accepted Lankester's original doctrine of the direct or genetic affinity of the Chaetopoda and Arthropoda, that Apus and Branchipus really come very near to the ancestral forms which connected those two great branches of Appendiculate (Parapodiate) animals.

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