| 单词 | caecilian |
| 释义 | caecilian (once / 422119 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY caecilian: caecilians USAGE EXAMPLESThis weird-looking critter is a caecilian, a legless amphibian that lives in Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and from southern Mexico to Argentina. National Geographic(Sep 02, 2015) Dr. Frost, 62, oversees the museum’s catalog of the class Amphibia — more than 7,200 species, comprising frogs, salamanders and limbless, soil-dwelling caecilians. New York Times(May 26, 2014) When caecilian babies hatch from their eggs, they’ll immediately start scraping off their mother’s skin for food with their super-sharp baby teeth. Scientific American(Dec 26, 2013) 1adj of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae 2n any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions Syn|Hyper blindworm amphibian cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form |
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