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Definition of glass snake in English: glass snakenoun another term for glass lizard Example sentencesExamples - Later another tail will grow, but the lost piece will not develop into a new glass snake.
- Also called the glass snake or legless lizard, the slender glass lizard has a pointed snout, narrow head, and a long cylindrical body with no limbs.
- As children we called them glass snakes and I often found them in our Orlando backyard where I played and learned to appreciate resident wildlife.
- Lizards typically have four legs with five toes on each foot, although a few, such as the worm lizard and the so-called glass snake, are limbless, retaining only internal vestiges of legs.
- Their common name, glass lizard or glass snake, is due to their ability, like many lizards, of dropping their tail.
Definition of glass snake in US English: glass snakenoun another term for glass lizard Example sentencesExamples - Lizards typically have four legs with five toes on each foot, although a few, such as the worm lizard and the so-called glass snake, are limbless, retaining only internal vestiges of legs.
- Their common name, glass lizard or glass snake, is due to their ability, like many lizards, of dropping their tail.
- As children we called them glass snakes and I often found them in our Orlando backyard where I played and learned to appreciate resident wildlife.
- Also called the glass snake or legless lizard, the slender glass lizard has a pointed snout, narrow head, and a long cylindrical body with no limbs.
- Later another tail will grow, but the lost piece will not develop into a new glass snake.
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