ˈapədə noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, neuter plural of apod-, apous footless
: any of several different groups of animals that have been so named from their lacking limbs or feet: 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 (as the leeches)