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(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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “adelopod”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)