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Caecilian

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Noun

1. blindworm, caecilian

any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions

Adjective

2. caecilian

of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Caecilian

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noun
any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil

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Caecilian

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noun
any of an order (Gymnophiona) of legless tropical amphibians resembling worms

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Caecilian

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n.
Any of various legless, burrowing amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, having numerous grooved rings encircling the body, and found chiefly in tropical regions.

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