apode
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]apode (plural apodes)
- Alternative form of apod
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄποδος (ápodos), genitive of ἄπους (ápous).[1] By surface analysis, a- + -pode.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]apode (plural apodes)
- (zoology) legless, limbless; apodal, apodous; without limbs, feet, paws, etc.
- lacking limbs, (by extension) having highly devolved vestigial limbs (of a lifeform)
- Antonyms: à pattes; à pieds; pattu; -pède (monopède/unipède, bipède, quadrupède, etc.)
- Les serpents sont apodes.
- Snakes have no limbs.
- Les amphisbènes sont un autre groupe de reptiles apodes.
- Amphisbaenia is another group of limbless reptiles.
- Les lézards apodes sont des lézards dont les pattes ont totalement ou en partie disparu au cours de l’évolution, au point de ne plus être utilisées lors de la locomotion.
- Legless lizards are lizards whose legs have totally or partially disappeared in the course of evolution, to the point where they are no longer used for locomotion.
- characterized by a lack of limbs
- De nombreux reptiles ont évolué vers une forme apode.
- Many reptiles have evolved into a limbless form.
- Le processus évolutif transformant des lézards quadrupèdes en formes apodes se traduit par trois grandes caractéristiques : […]
- The evolutionary process which transforms quadrupedal lizards into legless ones is characterized by three major tendencies: […]
- performed or accomplished without use of or need for limbs
- Les serpents ont perfectionné plusieurs modes de locomotion apode.
- Snakes have perfected several methods of limbless locomotion.
- lacking limbs, (by extension) having highly devolved vestigial limbs (of a lifeform)
Noun
[edit]apode m (plural apodes)
- legless animal, limbless animal, apode
- Les apodes sont dépourvus de pieds, de pattes. ― Limbless animals lack feet and legs.
- Il n’existe aucune espèce connue d’apode capable de survivre dans de telles conditions.
- There is no known limbless species capable of surviving in such conditions.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “apode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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[edit]apode (plural apodi)
Latin
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[edit]apode
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]apode
- inflection of apodar:
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