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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of cylinder-snakes or tortricoid ophidians, typified by the genus Uropeltis, having no rudiments of hind limbs, and the tail of variable character according to the genus; the roughtails. The family is also called Rhinophidæ. There are 7 genera.

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