legless's Usage Examples:

The somites of the body, except in Pauropus, either fuse after early development and form double somites with two pairs of appendages (Julus, 'c.), or present legless and leg-bearing somites alternating.

In consequence of this appeal a legless skin was within two years sent to the society (Proceedings, 1835, p. 61) obtained by W.

This sub-order includes the vast majority of the Hymenoptera, characterized by the narrowly constricted waist in the adult and by the legless condition of the larva.

Ter-pill-05a ij iirooa toroKouvra, four - footed or legless Enaema which lay eggs (= Reptiles and Amphibia).

Larva eruciform, with seven or eight pairs of abdominal prolegs, or entirely legless.

boring grub of a longhorn-beetle or of the saw-fly Sires, with its stumpy vestiges of thoracic legs; the large-headed but entirely legless, fleshy grub of a weevil; and the legless larva, with greatly reduced head, of a bee.

Clinging to her hairs they are carried to the nest, where they bore into the body of a bee or wasp larva, and after a moult become soft-skinned legless maggots.

Kolbe, on the other hand, insists that the weevils are the most modified of all beetles, being highly specialized as regards their adult structure, and developing from legless maggots exceedingly different from the adult; he regards the Adephaga, with their active armoured larvae with two foot-claws, as the most primitive group of beetles, and there can be little doubt that the likeness between larvae and adult may safely be accepted as a primitive character among insects.

It bores through and enters the developing seed, where it undergoes a moult and becomes legless.

Larvae legless grubs.