amphisbaenian
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editNoun
editamphisbaenian (plural amphisbaenians)
- (zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenia, the clade of worm lizards.
- 2016 July 13, Elsa Panciroli, “How did legless worm-lizards cross the Atlantic?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Amphisbaenians lost their legs independently of the snake lineage and belong to their own distinct part of the squamate tree.
Further reading
edit- amphisbaenian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia