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Definition of Amphisbaenas
1. amphisbaena [n] - See also: amphisbaena
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphisbaenas
Literary usage of Amphisbaenas
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)
"These exceptional instances pave the way to the family of the amphisbaenas, in
which such or a still lower phase of limb development represents the normal ..."
2. Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals by Frank Evers Beddard (1905)
"The most thoroughly snake- like of living lizards are the amphisbaenas, a race
which is ... There are not uncommonly amphisbaenas to be seen at the Zoo. ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"... but in the sunshine of your mirth — must be ripened by this hot-bed process
of realization into asps or amphisbaenas; and Mrs. Candour — O! frightful! ..."
4. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"... living monitors than are the monitors to the living amphisbaenas or chameleons.
Whether the Squamata are an order, as is usually taught in text-books, ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The tongue is slightly elongated, covered with scale-like papillae, and bifurcates
into two long and narrow smooth points. The amphisbaenas lead an entirely ..."
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