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Definition of Apodous
1. Adjective. (of snakes and eels) naturally footless. "Eels are apodal"
Definition of Apodous
1. a. Apodal; apod.
Definition of Apodous
1. Adjective. (biology) apodal ¹
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Definition of Apodous
1. apodal [adj] - See also: apodal
Medical Definition of Apodous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apodous
Literary usage of Apodous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The apodous penultimate and anal segments arc innervated from the last ganglion
of the cord, as arc also the ..."
2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"... with their apodous maggots, present the extreme of modification though not of
specialisation, and so with other apodous insects and ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"... maggots present the extreme of modification though not of specialization, and
so with other apodous insects and apo- dous Arthropoda in general. ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The existence of such an apodous larva is especially striking in the Hymenoptera,
in that rudiments of thoracic and abdominal appendages are present in the ..."
5. An Introduction to Entomology, Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1818)
"apodous larvae seldom have occasion to take long journeys; and many of them,
except when about to assume the pupa, only want to change their place or ..."
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