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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In herpetology, a subfamily of Boidæ, represented by the genus Eryx and its relatives, having a non-prehensile tail. It corresponds to the Erycidæ without the genus Charina, or the old-world sand-snakes. See cut under Eryx.

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