Apoda

plural noun

Ap·​o·​da

ˈapədə

: 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)

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek, neuter plural of apod-, apous footless

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