Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Ammodytidœ.
- noun A name used in books for the sand-natter, a serpent of southern Europe.
- noun In botany, a plant growing habitually in sandy places.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete, obsolete One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.
- noun obsolete A kind of viper in southern Europe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One of a genus of
fishes ; thesand eel . - noun obsolete A kind of
viper in southernEurope .
Etymologies
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Latin ammodytes, Ancient Greek for "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".
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