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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Huxley's system of classification, one of the major divisions of the Lacertilia, distinguished from all the Cionocrania by the absence of the columella and of an interorbital septum, and from all known lizards by the disunion of the pterygoid and quadrate bones: same as Rhiptoglossa.

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