glass lizard

English

Noun

glass lizard (plural glass lizards)

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

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