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  • noun The state or condition of being limbless; lack of limbs.

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Examples

  • Many families of lizards have independently evolved limblessness or greatly reduced limbs which are presumably non-functional in locomotion, including the following examples:1

    How to make a snake - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Limbs in whales and limblessness in other vertebrates: mechanisms of evolutionary and developmental transformation and loss pdf clarifies the question.

    Luskin, Haeckel, Richardson, Richards - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The question ‘Why’ spent more time seeking my lips than a search to see if you were disabled in an odd way, perhaps prevented by a spectacular, as yet unseen, limblessness or were simply glued to the seat with super glue applied in jest by miscreants giggling hysterically further up the bus or just feared motion sickness exacerbated by being seated anywhere else.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • The question ‘Why’ spent more time seeking my lips than a search to see if you were disabled in an odd way, perhaps prevented by a spectacular, as yet unseen, limblessness or were simply glued to the seat with super glue applied in jest by miscreants giggling hysterically further up the bus or just feared motion sickness exacerbated by being seated anywhere else.

    Back Of The Bus Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • And on the subject of slow-worms and their close kin the glass lizards, I was going to discuss anguid phylogeny, the evolution of limblessness and the tricky issue of glass lizard paraphyly, but that’ll have to wait.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

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