Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several slender, limbless, snakelike lizards of the genus Ophisaurus, having a tail that breaks or snaps off readily and later regenerates.
Etymologies
- From the brittleness of its tail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“STOPPING again at a natural shrubbery, when turning my eyes to some flowering shrubs, I observed near my feet, the surprising glass snake (anguis fragilis;) they seem as innocent and harmless as worms.”
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