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- noun The state or condition of being
footless .
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footless + -ness
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Thus we see that in the Synaptidae the thick and irregular calcareous bodies of the Holothurians have been modified and transformed in various ways in adaptation to the footlessness of these animals, and to the peculiar conditions of their life, and we must conclude that the earlier stages of these changes presented themselves to the processes of selection in the form of microscopic variations.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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