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Definition of Apodal
1. Adjective. (of snakes and eels) naturally footless. "Eels are apodal"
Definition of Apodal
1. Adjective. (biology) without feet or foot-like body parts; legless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apodal
1. having no feet or footlike appendages [adj]
Medical Definition of Apodal
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1. Without feet; footless.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apodal
Literary usage of Apodal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"are distinguished from each other, as being either apodal, jugular, thoracic,
... Thus there are prickly tinned apodal fishes, prickly-finned ju£t*- ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"or the final stage of a fusion of two into one. EDMUND B. WILSON THE STRUCTURAL
CHARACTERISTICS AND RELATIONS OF THE apodal ..."
3. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"The pain is worst in the heat of the day, but ceases in the cool of the evening.
CHAP. VIII. Of Bony fishes in general....apodal Fishes....The EEL. ..."
4. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature: Illustrated with Copperplates by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"Thus there are prickly finned apodal fishes, ... Thus there are soft- firmed
apodal fishes, soft-finned ..."
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