caecilian
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i noun
1.
Also called blindworm. a legless, wormlike tropical amphibian of the order Gymnophiona (formerly Apoda), spending most of its life underground and usually almost blind.
adjective
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of a caecilian.
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| —n | |
| any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil | |
| [C19: from Latin caecilia a kind of lizard, from caecus blind] | |
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Caecilian
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Example sentences
Parental investment by skin feeding in a caecilian amphibian.
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