tortricoidea

from The Century Dictionary.

• The cylindersnakes, or tortricoid ophidians, a suborder of Ophidia containing small angiostomatons snakes, with or without anal spurs, with an ectopterygoid bone, a coronoid, and a free horizontal maxillary. There are two families, Tortricidæ, and Uropeltidæ (or Rhinophidæ).