Apodal Definition

ăpə-dl
adjective
Lacking feet or legs, as snakes.
Webster's New World
Lacking ventral fins.
Webster's New World
Having no limbs, feet, or footlike appendages.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) Without feet or foot-like body parts; legless.

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Origin of Apodal

  • From Greek apous a- without a–1 pous pod- foot ped- in Indo-European roots

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

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

    From Wiktionary

Apodal Sentence Examples

  • All fruit and forest trees suffer from these curious insects, which in the female sex always remain apterous and apodal and live attached to the bark, leaf and fruit, hidden beneath variously formed scale-like coverings.

  • In addition Cuvier accepts the Linnaean subdivisions of Amphibia-Reptilia for the tortoises, lizards (including crocodiles), salamanders and frogs; and Amphibia-Serpentes for the snakes, apodal lizards and Caeciliae.

  • The larvae are white, fleshy, apodal grubs, with a series of tubercles along each side of the body; the head is round, and bears strong jaws, and sometimes rudimentary ocelli.

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Words Starting With

AAPAPO

Words Ending With

LALDAL

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