legless lizards

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• legless lizard — noun a) Any of the several groups of lizards of the family Pygopodidae which have lost limbs or reduced them to the point of uselessness. b) Any lizard that does not have limbs …   Wiktionary

• legless lizard — noun degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards • Hypernyms: ↑lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑Anniellidae, ↑family Anniellidae …   Useful english dictionary

• American legless lizard — Taxobox name = Anniellidae image width = 240px image caption = Anniella pulchra regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Reptilia ordo = Squamata familia = Anniellidae genus = Anniella genus authority = Gray, 1852 subdivision ranks = Species …   Wikipedia

• lizard — /liz euhrd/, n. 1. any of numerous scaly reptiles of the suborder Sauria, order Squamata, typically having a moderately elongate body, a tapering tail, and two pairs of legs held outward from the body, comprising mostly terrestrial and burrowing… …   Universalium

• Lizard — For other uses, see Lizard (disambiguation). Lizards Temporal range: Late Triassic – Recent, 220–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Squamata — This article is about the Squamata order of reptiles. For the Roman scale armour, see Lorica squamata. Scaled reptiles Temporal range: Late Triassic recent …   Wikipedia

• reptile — reptilelike, adj. reptiloid /rep tl oyd /, adj. /rep til, tuyl/, n. 1. any cold blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the… …   Universalium

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• locomotion — /loh keuh moh sheuhn/, n. the act or power of moving from place to place. [1640 50; see LOCOMOTIVE, MOTION] * * * Any of various animal movements that result in progression from one place to another. Locomotion is classified as either… …   Universalium

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