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Definition of Legless lizard
1. Noun. Degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards.
Definition of Legless lizard
1. Noun. Any of the several groups of lizards of the family ''Pygopodidae'' which have lost limbs or reduced them to the point of uselessness. ¹
2. Noun. Any lizard that does not have limbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legless Lizard
Literary usage of Legless lizard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The British BLIND-WORM, or SLOW-WORM, constitutes an example of such a legless
lizard, although on account of its outward snake-like appearance it is ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... OF SCIENCES such a way that a very delicate, blind and legless lizard would
be enabled to reach a suitable environment on shore. ..."
3. Illustrated Natural History for Young People by John George Wood (1882)
"The BLIND-WORM is not a snake, as generally supposed, but a legless lizard of
the Skink family. It is perfectly harmless; its small mouth and very minute ..."
4. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"Photograph of legless lizard skin. The covering of scales, so characteristic of
reptiles, has also in some cases become much reduced. legless lizards FIG. ..."
5. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"The absence of limbs is not distinctive, since the glass-snake is a legless
lizard, and some snakes have rudiments of hind limbs. ..."
6. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"The smaller lizards and the legless lizard, called the " slow-worm," have this
power in regard to the tail, but they proceed to grow a new tail after they ..."
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