Definition of Apoda
:any of several different groups of animals that have been so named from their lacking limbs or feet: such as
a
:an order of slender wormlike holothurians that lack tube feet and radial ambulacral vessels — compare holothurioidea
b
:a group of fishes without pelvic fins
c
:caecilians
d
:an order or suborder of parasitic segmented cirripedes
e
:worms without appendages (such as the leeches)
