ammodyte

From Latin ammodytes, from Ancient Greek "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".

ammodyte (plural ammodytes)

1. (obsolete) One of the genus Ammodytes of fishes; the sand eel.
2. (obsolete) A species of viper (Vipera ammodytes) of southeastern Europe.

• Ammodytes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vipera ammodytes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ammodytes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vipera ammodytes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “ammodyte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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ammodyte f (plural ammodytes)

1. ammodyte (all senses)

• “ammodyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.