adelopod

From Ancient Greek ἄδηλος (ádēlos, “invisible”) +‎ -pod.

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɛləpɒd/

adelopod (plural adelopods)

1. (obsolete, rare) An animal having feet that are not apparent.
   • 1871, The Illustrated Police News, volume 11, page 2:

     […] adelopods, such as clams, quahaugs, and shell-skids.

   • 1878, William Tucker Washburn, Poems, page 227:

     Maiden, gliding o'er the sod, / As by the Graces' sandal shod, / Art thou an adelopod?

   • 1878, Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, page 275:

     The adelopod, we should think, might walk upon the cream of time without disturbing it

• “adelopod”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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