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‖n. [ Gr. 'a`kros topmost + poy`s, podo`s, foot. ] (Zool.) The entire upper surface of the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 heliozoans; radiolarians.
Syn. -- subclass Actinopoda [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; invisible + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Zool.) An animal having feet that are not apparent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas.
Syn. -- family Ailuropodidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; blunt + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Paleon.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Amphipoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_;, &unr_; foot. ] (Zool.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'anapo`deiktos; 'an priv. + 'apodeikto`s. See Apodeictic. ] Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; without joints + -poda. See Anarthrous. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; unequal + -poda. ] (Zool.) A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Diametrically opposite. “His antipodal shadow.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The singular, antipode, is exceptional in formation, but has been used by good writers. Its regular English plural would be the last syllable rhyming with abodes, and this pronunciation is sometimes heard. The plural form (originally a Latin word without a singular) is in common use, and is pronounced, after the English method of Latin, [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pl., fr. Gr. &unr_; with the feet opposite, pl. &unr_; &unr_;; 'anti` against + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] 1. Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything exactly opposite or contrary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel? Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Apod, n. ] (Zool.) (a) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs. (b) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha. (c) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Apod, n. ] 1. Without feet; footless. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Apodal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Apods r Apodes [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, footless; 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Zool.) One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The bird of paradise formerly had the name Paradisea apoda, being supposed to have no feet, as these were wanting in the specimens first obtained from the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; body. ] (Zool.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., masc. pl. See Apoda. ] (Zool.) (a) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. (b) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Apodeictic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. apodicticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to point out, to show by argument; &unr_; from + &unr_; to show. ] Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

, adv. So as to be evident beyond contradiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an oreer of birds including the swifts and hummingbirds.
Syn. -- order Apodiformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;. ] Full demonstration. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to give back; &unr_; from, back again + &unr_; to give. ] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, ” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

#), a. (Zool.) Apodal; apod. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to strip one's self. ] (Anc. Arch.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Arthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a`rqron joint + -poda. ] (Zool.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. bai`nein to walk + -pod. ] (Zool.) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Basi- + poy`s, podo`s, foot. ] (Anat.) The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a North American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic.
Syn. -- Indian tobacco. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of a number of annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some are placed in the genus Lesquerella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf.F. brachiopode. ] (Zool.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; arm + -poda. ] (Zool.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Within the shell is a pair of “arms, ” often long and spirally coiled, bearing rows of ciliated tentacles by which a current of water is made to flow into the mantle cavity, bringing the microscopic food to the mouth between the bases of the arms. The shell is both opened and closed by special muscles. They form two orders; Lyopoma, in which the shell is thin, and without a distinct hinge, as in Lingula; and Arthropoma, in which the firm calcareous shell has a regular hinge, as in Rhynchonella. See Arthropomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the true sloths.
Syn. -- family Bradypodidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; gill + E. gastropoda. ] (Zool.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the Branchiopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + -poda: cf. F. branchiopode. ] (Zool.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of birds including the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) and purple finch (Carpodacus purpurea).
Syn. -- genus Carpodacus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., gr. Gr. kefalh` head + -poda: cf. F. céphalopode. ] (Zool.) The highest class of Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have, around the front of the head, a group of elongated muscular arms, which are usually furnished with prehensile suckers or hooks. The head is highly developed, with large, well organized eyes and ears, and usually with a cartilaginous brain case. The higher forms, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopi, swim rapidly by ejecting a jet of water from the tubular siphon beneath the head. They have a pair of powerful horny jaws shaped like a parrot's beak, and a bag of inklike fluid which they can eject from the siphon, thus clouding the water in order to escape from their enemies. They are divided into two orders, the Dibranchiata, having two gills and eight or ten sucker-bearing arms, and the Tetrabranchiata, with four gills and numerous arms without suckers. The latter are all extinct except the Nautilus. See Octopus, Squid, Nautilus. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Zool.) One of the Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods. [ 1913 Webster ]