adjective
- without feet or fins; lacking limbs or appendages for locomotion
Usage: chiefly zoological or biological
Examples
- Snakes are apodal reptiles that move by undulating their bodies.
- The apodal larvae of certain insects develop legs only after metamorphosis.
- Marine biologists studied the apodal fish species found in the deep ocean.
- Apodal amphibians like caecilians burrow through soil and leaf litter.