glass lizard

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Noun

glass lizard (plural glass lizards)

  1. A member of the genus Ophisaurus, comprising some fifteen species of legless lizards.
    • 2015, Andreas Wagner, ‘Possible creatures’, Aeon, 16 March:
      When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.

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