worm lizards

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• worm lizard — any of numerous burrowing, primarily legless lizards of the suborder Amphisbaenia, mostly inhabiting tropical areas and resembling an earthworm in shape. * * * ▪ reptile       (Rhineura floridana), lizard that has no limbs or external eyes or… …   Universalium

• worm lizard — noun Any of many small limbless burrowing tropical lizards, of the family Amphisbaenidae, that resemble worms …   Wiktionary

• Florida worm lizard — ▪ reptile       pale or pinkish wormlike lizard characterized by the absence of limbs, external eyes, or ear openings, representing the only living member of the amphisbaenian family Rhineuridae. (Amphisbaenians are a group of burrowing, limbless …   Universalium

• 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

• 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

• snake — snakelike, adj. /snayk/, n., v., snaked, snaking. n. 1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas. 2. a treacherous person; an …   Universalium

• 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

• Amphisbaenia — Taxobox name = Worm lizards fossil range = Cretaceous [Wu X. c., D. B. Brinkman, A. P. Russell, Z. m. Dong, P. J. Currie, L. h. Hou, G. h. Cui (1993). Oldest known amphisbaenian from the Upper Cretaceous of Chinese Inner Mongolia. Nature 366: 57… …   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

• tuatara — /tooh euh tahr euh/, n. a large, primarily nocturnal, lizardlike reptile, Sphenodon punctatum, of islands near the coast of New Zealand: the only surviving rhynchocephalian. Also, tuatera /tooh euh tair euh/. Also called sphenodon. [1810 20; …   Universalium

• Reptile — Taxobox fossil range = Carboniferous Recent name = Reptiles image width = 251px image caption = A Rhinoceros Iguana, Cyclura cornuta regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Reptilia classis authority = Laurenti, 1768… …   Wikipedia