Definition of Family anguidae

1. Noun. Alligator lizards.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Anguidae

family Ambystomatidae
family Ameiuridae
family Amiidae
family Ammodytidae
family Amphioxidae
family Amphisbaenidae
family Amphiumidae
family Amygdalaceae
family Anabantidae
family Anacardiaceae
family Anarhichadidae
family Anatidae
family Ancylidae
family Ancylostomatidae
family Andrenidae
family Anguidae
family Anguillidae
family Anhimidae
family Anhingidae
family Anniellidae
family Annonaceae
family Anobiidae
family Anomalopidae
family Anomiidae
family Antedonidae
family Antennariidae
family Anthocerotaceae
family Antilocapridae
family Aphididae
family Aphyllanthaceae

Literary usage of Family anguidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is solely represented by a tortoise confined to the Malay countries In the lizards the family Anguidae is represented by one genus; ..."

2. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1907)
"In the family Anguidae the limbs may be more or less developed, or entirely absent externally, in which case, however, the rudiments of the pectoral and ..."

3. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"The family Anguidae, or slow-worms, includes the famous glass-snake or joint-snake of the South. This snake-like lizard has no legs, or only rudiments of ..."

4. The Geology of the Environs of Albuquerque, New Mexico by Clarence Luther Herrick (1899)
"Family. ANGUIDAE. Tongue composed of two distinct portions, a principal posterior part covered with ..."

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