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apodal

/ap-uh-dl/US // ˈæp ə dl //UK // (ˈæpədəl) //

阿波达勒,阿波达,阿波德勒,阿波代尔

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Zoology.

    • : having no distinct feet or footlike members.
    • : belonging or pertaining to the orders Apoda and Apodes, comprising various groups of animals without limbs.

Examples

  • The male only is winged; the female is very like an apodal larva, the larva being an active hexapod.

  • A family of fishes belonging to the apodal section of the malacopterygii.

  • Apodal Fishes, the name applied to such malacopterous fishes as want ventral fins.