A lizard that lacks legs and resembles a snake or worm.
an Australian lizard of a group that includes the scalyfoots (several genera in the family Pygopodidae).
a North American lizard of California and Baja California (genus Anniella and family Anniellidae).
Example sentencesExamples
- In the wild legless lizards feed on a variety of small mammals, bird eggs and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms.
- What's the difference between a legless lizard and a snake?
- Similarly, legless lizards have evolved many times.
- If you've never seen a legless lizard you might want to compare it to a snake.
- There were also some reptiles including a legless lizard and a very pretty bynoe's gecko.