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coecilian

coecilian is the dated form of caecilian.

Meaning of caecilian

Noun

caecilian (plural caecilians)

  1. Any of a group of burrowing amphibians of the order Gymnophiona that resemble earthworms or snakes.
    • Today we have just three major lineages of amphibians - the anurans (frogs and toads), the newts and salamanders, and the worm-like caecilians, all of which can trace their ancestry back to long before the dinosaurs.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 50

Forms of coecilian

pluralcoecilians

Questions about coecilian

What is coecilian the dated form of?
Coecilian is the dated form of caecilian.

Words near coecilian in the dictionary

  1. coebang
  2. coebangs
  3. Coeburn
  4. coeca
  5. coecal
  6. coecilian
  7. coecilians
  8. coecum
  9. coed
  10. Coed Ely
  11. Coed-talon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coecilian (page history and authors); caecilian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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