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单词 apode
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apodeadj.n.

/ˈapɒd//ˈapəʊd/
Forms: Also apod.
Etymology: < Greek ἄπους, ἀποδ- footless, < privative + πούς foot; after modern Latin Apodes, Apoda, applied to groups in Zoology.
A. adj.
Footless; = apodal adj. 1, 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > footless
feetless1614
apodal1802
apode1816
apodous1816
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. iv. 139 An apode larva.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxii. 416 The Ophidians and Apod fishes evidently tend towards each other.
1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 16 The larvæ..of the Weevils..are apod.
B. n.
(usually plural = modern Latin Apodes, Apoda.) Term applied to certain birds, fish, and reptiles, in which feet or ventral fins are either wholly absent or merely rudimentary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > footless animal
apode1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxx. vii. 383 The greater kind of Swallowes or Martins called Apodes.
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 306 In birds, reptiles and insects, there are some which have been falsely called apteroids, or apods; for they possess in concealment the members which their name declares them to want.
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