ammodyte

English
Ammodytes tobianus
Vipera ammodytes

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ammodyte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Noun

ammodyte f (plural ammodytes)

  1. ammodyte (all senses)
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