apodaln.
/ˈapədəl/ A batrachian belonging to the order Apoda, a group of the Cæcilians.
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1856 Encycl. Brit. XII. 229/1 Sub-Order III.—Ribbon Apodals.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 383 To say nothing of the scales, present in many genera of Apodals and absent in all Caudates.
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apodaladj.
/ˈapədəl/ Zoology.
1. Footless.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 309 Apodal Lizard.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 862/1 The larvæ of these insects are generally apodal.
2. Of fish: Lacking the ventral fin.
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1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 113 The eel is placed by Linnæus in the genus of Muræna, his first of the apodal fish.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 183 The hæmapophyses of..the last abdominal vertebra..are wholly wanting..in the fishes called ‘apodal.’
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