Aniliidae
plural noun
An·i·li·idae
-īəˌdē
: a small family of tropical nonvenomous burrowing snakes with vestigial pelvis and vestigial hind legs
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from Anilius, type genus (from Anilios, according to Buffon [18th-century French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon] the name of a snake of the genus Typhlops on Cyprus) + -idae -idae
First Known Use
1907, in the meaning defined above