Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal whose feet are inconspicuous or not apparent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An animal having feet that are not apparent.
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- noun zoology An animal having feet that are not
apparent .
Etymologies
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This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. Ancient Greek invisible + foot.
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The Century Dictionary - a fantastic multivolume dictionary from the early 1900s - introduced me to culicide (the act of killing mosquitoes), adelopod (an animal whose feet are inconspicuous or not apparent), disparple
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a - dēlos; pod - ` evident '; adelopod ` without evident feet'
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