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glass lizard

glass lizard noun: a member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.

glass lizard: a member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards
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Noun

glass lizard (plural glass lizards)

  1. A member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.
    • When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2018
    Synonyms:
    glass snake

Synonyms of glass lizard

Forms of glass lizard

pluralglass lizards

Words formed from glass lizard

Questions about glass lizard

What does glass lizard mean?
Glass lizard means a member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.
What part of speech is glass lizard?
Glass lizard is a noun.
What is the plural of glass lizard?
The plural of glass lizard is glass lizards.

Words near glass lizard in the dictionary

  1. glass harpist
  2. glass harpists
  3. glass harps
  4. glass jaw
  5. glass jaws
  6. glass lizard
  7. glass lizards
  8. glass metal
  9. glass noodle
  10. glass noodles
  11. glass of antimony

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