Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zo⊙l., a name given to various groups of animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.
- noun plural An order of Amphibia without feet. See
ophiomorpha . - noun plural A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.
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Examples
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Selaginella apoda, or Meadow Spikemoss is a small, insignificant looking plant, common to eastern North America.
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The wetland areas of the region support numerous waterfowl and native fish including the endemic brown mudfish (Neochanna apoda), which is considered a lower risk globally threatened species.
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To me it suggests nothing so much as Paradisaea apoda, the greater bird of paradise, raising its plumes in lubricious display.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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It is tolerably plentiful in the Aru Islands, which led to it, being brought to Europe at an early period along with Paradisea apoda.
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A tree with an accommodating shape—a sparse crown, horizontal limbs on which males can dance back and forth—might serve as a lek for many consecutive generations of P. apoda.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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If the giant bird Aepyornis maximus could exist without wings, why not a modest-sized Paradisea apoda without feet?
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The Paradisea apoda, as far as we have any certain knowledge, is confined to the mainland of the Aru Islands, never being found in the smaller islands which surround the central mass.
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The female differs remarkably front the same sex in Paradisea apoda, by being entirely white on the under surface of the body, and is thus a much handsomer bird.
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The Great Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda of Linnaeus) is the largest species known, being generally seventeen or eighteen inches from the beak to the tip of the tail.
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It continually utters a harsh, creaking note, somewhat intermediate between that of Paradisea apoda, and the more musical cry of Cicinnurus regius.
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