| 单词 | anguine lizard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanguine lizard anguine lizard n. (a) a South African legless lizard, Chamaesaura anguina (family Cordylidae), having reduced monodactylous limbs (now rare); (b) any of various legless lizards of the subfamily Anguinae, which includes slow worms and glass lizards. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Cordylidae > member of (snake) snakec1000 cordyl1608 anguine lizard1776 zonure1883 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Anguidae > member of ribbon snake1706 riband snake1791 anguine lizard1973 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 25 (heading) Anguine lizard... It seems to be of that kind which connects the serpent and lizard genus, having a long and very slender body, and very small legs. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §501 The Anguine Lizard, also a native of South Africa. 1965 Lammergeyer 3 No. 2 45 Chamaesaura anguina (Linnaeus). Cape Snake-lizard or Anguine Lizard. 1973 Soviet Jrnl. Developmental Biol. 3 396 Experiments were performed on the embryos of two species of reptiles: the green lizard Lacerta viridis..and the anguine lizard Anguis fragilis. 1987 Jrnl. Herpetol. 21 129/2 The geographic distribution of ‘anguine’ lizards spans much of the northern hemisphere. 1995 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 8) 1913/2 Subfamily: Anguine Lizards (Anguinae). < as lemmas |
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