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plural amphisbaenians
(zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenia, the clade of worm lizards. quotations
Amphisbaenians lost their legs independently of the snake lineage and belong to their own distinct part of the squamate tree.
2016 July 13, Elsa Panciroli, “How did legless worm-lizards cross the Atlantic?”, in The Guardian