{ Ap"od (&?;), Ap"ode (&?;), } n.; pl. Apods (&?;) or Apodes (&?;). [Gr. &?;, &?;, footless; 'a priv. + &?;, &?;, foot.] (Zoöl.) One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.
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.
||Ap"o*da (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;. See Apod, n.] (Zoöl.) (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.
Ap"o*dan (&?;), a. (Zoöl.) Apodal.
{ Ap"o*deic"tic (&?;), Ap`o*dic"tic (&?;), Ap`o*deic"tic*al (&?;), Ap`o*dic"tic*al (&?;), } a. [L. apodicticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to point out, to show by argument; &?; from + &?; to show.] Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.
Ap`o*deic"tic*al*ly, Ap`o*dic"tic*al*ly, adv. So as to be evident beyond contradiction.
Ap"o*deme (&?;), n. [Pref. apo- + Gr. &?; body.] (Zoöl.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.
||Ap"o*des (&?;), n. pl. [NL., masc. pl. See Apoda.] (Zoöl.) (a) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. (b) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.
Ap`o*dic"tic (&?;), a. Same as Apodeictic.
||Ap`o*dix"is (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?;.] Full demonstration.
||A*pod"o*sis (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to give back; &?; from, back again + &?; 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.
Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional.
Ap"o*dous (&?;)(#), a. (Zoöl.) Apodal; apod.
||A*pod`y*te"ri*um (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; 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.
Ap`o*ga"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; far from the earth.] Apogean.
Ap`o*gam"ic (&?;), a. Relating to apogamy.
A*pog"a*my (&?;), n. [Pref. apo- + Gr. &?; marriage.] (Bot.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.
Ap`o*ge"al (&?;), a. (Astron.) Apogean.
Ap`o*ge"an (&?;), a. Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.
Ap"o*gee (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; from the earth; &?; from + &?;, &?;, earth: cf. F. apogée.] 1. (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
Formerly, on the hypothesis that the earth is in the center of the system, this name was given to that point in the orbit of the sun, or of a planet, which was supposed to be at the greatest distance from the earth.