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| 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. |
| 2. | pertaining to or characteristic of a caecilian. |
| cae·cil·ian (sə-sĭl'yən, -sĭl'ē-ən, -sēl'-) n. Any of various legless, burrowing, wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, of tropical regions. [From Latin caecilia, a kind of lizard, from caecus, blind (from its small eyes).] |