Apoda
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.
3. A group of worms without appendages, as the
leech.
Apodal
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Without feet; in
zoology, destitute of ventral fins.
Apodal
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Without feet; footless.
2. Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.
Apode
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. An animal that has no feet, applied to certain
fabulous fowls, which are said to have no legs, and also to some birds that have very short legs.
2. In
zoology, the
apodes are an order of fishes which have no ventral fins; the first order in
Linne's system.
Apode
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain
fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.
Apodeme
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many
Crustacea.
Apodes
[Noun plural]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.
2. A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See
Apneumona.
Apodictic
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Apodosis
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Apodosis
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
The consequent clause or conclusion in a
conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the
protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he
slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the
protasis, and the latter the apodosis.
The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the
palestra, where one
stripped; a dressing room.