Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fishes, of the family Ammodytidœ; the sand-eel or sand-lance (which see).
- noun In herpetology, sand-natters, a genus of colubriform serpents, usually called
Eryx (which see). Bonaparte, 1831.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun type genus of the Ammodytidae.
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- noun Plural form of
ammodyte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Ammodytidae
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Snakes (_Coluber natrix_ and other species), vipers (_Vipera berus_ and _V. ammodytes_), and land and water tortoises are numerous.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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[This Message was edited by: Vipera ammodytes on 2008-06-17 07: 40]
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Rational Review 2009
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Vipera ammodytes meridionalis (sometimes called the Eastern sand viper) was caught on the Greek island of Euboia.
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