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apodous

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of snakes and eels) naturally footless
    eels are apodal

How To Use apodous In A Sentence

  • Let now a further decrease occur in the elevating heat, and a further increase in the earthy matter, and the animals become smaller in bulk, and their feet more numerous, until at a later stage they become apodous, and extended full length on the ground. On the Parts of Animals
  • a poor colour, and apodous either because it has no feet at all or because it has imperfect feet. Metaphysics
  • The larva is apodous and feeds on the flower head, fruits, seeds, stem or roots.
  • They present a region composed of apodous segments in the posterior portion, before the telson, called the growth zone, which develops new segments and new pairs of legs at every molt.
  • Firstly, all apodous squamates have ribs starting on or before the fourth vertebra.
  • The larvae are eruciform and apodous meaning they look like a caterpillar with no legs.
  • We have now done with such sanguineous animals as are quadrupedous and also such as are apodous, and have stated with sufficient completeness what external parts they possess, and for what reason they have them. On the Parts of Animals
  • Should the two insects, however, hereafter prove to be equally apodous in the second stage, the character will become generically important.
  • Apocrita: = petiolate, q.v. Apodal: with single, simple tubercles instead of feet, in larvae; without feet = apodous. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • THE account which has now been given of the viscera, the stomach, and the other several parts holds equally good not only for the oviparous quadrupeds, but also for such apodous animals as the Serpents. On the Parts of Animals
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