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Definition of Apodes
1. n. pl. An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.
Definition of Apodes
1. apode [n] - See also: apode
Medical Definition of Apodes
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apodes
Literary usage of Apodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"Those birds which are known as " apodes"69 fly the most of all, because they are
deprived of the use of their feet. By some persons they are culled ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... apodes with those which have none, but in mixing many of the Intestini with
the apodes, he has done what MS did not do. ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XXII THE apodes, OR EEL-LIKE FISHES HE Eels. ... eel-like fishes has been
usually regarded as constituting a single order, the apodes (a, without; ..."
4. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"O.-apodes.* (TA« Eels.) Scapular arch free behind the cranium; ... As here
understood, this order includes most of the old order oí apodes, excluding as ..."
5. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"Hence the name apodes is given to this order. The dorsal, anal and caudal fins,
when present, always run together. The common eel and the conger eel belong ..."
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