SINCE 1828
Apoda
plural noun
Ap·o·da
| \ ˈapədə\
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)
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