caecilian
Also called blindworm. a legless, wormlike tropical amphibian of the order Gymnophiona (formerly Apoda), spending most of its life underground and usually almost blind.
pertaining to or characteristic of a caecilian.
Origin of caecilian
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How to use caecilian in a sentence
It has been attempted of late to do away with this order altogether and to make the Caecilians merely a family of the Urodeles.
British Dictionary definitions for caecilian
/ (siːˈsɪlɪən) /
any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil
Origin of caecilian
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