glass lizard

noun

glass lizard

noun
1

A member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.

  • When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon:
Synonyms
glass snake
Derived terms
mimic glass lizard

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