Apocynum (aposinum)

[NL., American. The common name of the latter is Indian hemp, from the use of its fibrous and extremely tough bark by the American Indians for making nets, etc. apod, apode (ap'od, -ōd), a. and n. [ member of one of the several groups called Apoda or Apodes. Apoda (ap'o-da), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of apus (apod-), were referred to this group. (d) By various later writers the name was used as a distinctive ordinal name. By T. Müller the Ophidioidea and Ammodytoidea were eliminated. By Gill, in 1861, the order was restricted to the typical and symbranchiate eels, and later (1884) to the true eels, or teleost fishes with the in term axillaries atrophied or lost, the super maxillaries lateral, and the body anguilliform and destitute of ventral fins. These characters are correlated with various others which justify the isolation. The principal families are the Anguillidæ, Ophichthyidæ, and Murænidæ. 2. In De Blainville's system of cla ification, a division of his Entomozoaria; the apodal, as distinguished from the chætopod, entomozoans. It includes the leeches, and is approximately equivalent to the Hirudinea of modern naturalists, but contains many intestinal worms.