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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L.

caecus

blind. So named from the supposed blindness of the species, the eyes being very minute.]

(Zool.)

A limbless amphibian belonging to the order

Cæciliæ

Ophimorpha

. See

[Written also

cœcilian

caecilian ‎(plural caecilians)

Any of a group of burrowing amphibians (order Gymnophiona or Apoda) that resemble earthworms or snakes.

amphibian