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from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of ophidians, comprising serpents in which the mouth is not dilatable, and which are provided with anal spurs. There are two families, Cylindrophidæ and Uropeltidæ.
- In conchology, an artificial group of univalve gastropods whose shell has a narrow or contracted aperture, as cassidids, strombids, conids, olivids, cypræids, and others. Also written, corruptly, Angystomata, and originally
Angyostomata by De Blainville, 1818.
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